Who decides which images become sacred and which images are forgotten?
Who decides which images become sacred and which images are forgotten?
We have seen thousands of bodies in Gaza on camera, limbs, faces, parents holding pieces of their children.
Somehow those photos do not trigger in you the same absolute moral clarity that a few carefully curated Chinese-themed images do.
Why?
Because you have been given a hierarchy of outrage:
Some uniforms are proof of tyranny.
Other uniforms, when they beat antiwar students, drag protesters from campuses, raid homes, guard checkpoints, or stand beside mass graves, are called "security forces."
Some courts are "show trials."
Other courts sentence whistleblowers and protesters to decades in prison and you call that "the rule of law."
Some tanks are eternal symbols of evil.
Other tanks rolling through Iraq, Libya, Gaza, Afghanistan are called "defending freedom."
posted by Satish Sharma at
03:36
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