“Had there been YouTube and Instagram and TikTok around Auschwitz, this is what we would have seen, people burning alive. And it’s beyond horrendous, it’s beyond comprehension.”
-- Dr. Gabor Mate, on Israeli atrocities in Gaza and Lebanon.
Why don't people hear this? Because they refuse to hear it.
Why don't people see this? Because they refuse to see it.
Here in the West, in our hypothetically "open" societies, we have the hypothetical freedom to reach moral conclusions at odds with our governments, the hypothetical freedom to be empathetic, and principled, and angry. We have no one to stop us.
Instead, we stop ourselves. We refuse to hear, we refuse to see. We are the cause of genocide.
By ourselves, we must overcome our moral weakness, our apathy, our cowardice, to oppose genocide. No one else will force us to wake the hell up.
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