This is how mass innocence is manufactured: When an American soldier dies, it is a tragedy with a name, a face, a hometown, a grieving family shown on the news.
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This is how mass innocence is manufactured:
When an American soldier dies, it is a tragedy with a name, a face, a hometown, a grieving family shown on the news.
When a Vietnamese village was bombed, when a Yemeni wedding party was hit by a drone, when an Iranian girls' school was struck by a missile, it becomes "collateral damage."
It becomes "unconfirmed reports."
It becomes "a complex situation."
It becomes "a tragic mistake."
It becomes a passive sentence with no subject.
Bombs dropped.
Not: "we dropped bombs."
Civilians killed.
Not: "we killed civilians."
The grammar of American war reporting is engineered to remove the agent from the action.
This is not sloppy writing.
This is the entire point.
Keep the agent invisible and the citizen never has to decide whether they are responsible for what the agent does.
The bombs drop themselves.
The bodies appear.
And the American viewer changes the channel with a clear conscience.
posted by Satish Sharma at
05:41
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