So fucking true. It may not be as obvious but it’s still racism.
Every time someone sends me an ask accusing unarmed black people of “not being as innocent as the liberal media makes them look” I think two things:
- They’re doing a shitshow job of pretending to be even-handed when literal kids are being shot like animals.
- Even though racists LOVE acting like their defect is something to be proud of they sure do like being gutless cowards when slinging their garbage at me anonymously.
Your regular reminder that reblogging visceral images of dead or dying human beings, as a form of activism, is the quickest way to make me drop a blog. I see the point you’re trying to make, and replace it with “I already knew murder was bad and have a strong personal preference for not seeing unwarned-for images of torture in my personal space, thank you very much.”
Guys, don’t do this.
(Bonus politics: have you ever seen a photo of a dead white person? No, me neither. Photos of dead non-white people are frequently taken and published, always under the laudible aim of conveying important news. But over time, it does make one wonder why, say, images of wars in far away places and unjust murders and natural disasters are best illustrated by a photo of a dead, non-white child – but something like the Manchester bombings is not.
On a case by case basis, there is always a good reason to take and show these photos – but when you take a step back and look at the culture as a whole, turns out some bodies are seen as more worthy of respect and dignity and privacy even in death, and others ok for public display)
Israel today (May 14) massacred 55 Palestinians, many of them were youth, 43 out of 55 names were released and their names and ages were:
1. Ezz el-din Musa Mohamed Alsamaak, 14 years old
2. Wisaal Fadl Ezzat Alsheikh Khalil, 15 years old
3. Ahmed Adel Musa Alshaer, 16 years old
4. Saeed Mohamed Abu Alkheir, 16 years old
5. Ibrahim Ahmed Alzarqa, 18 years old
6. Eman Ali Sadiq Alsheikh, 19 years old
7. Zayid Mohamed Hasan Omar, 19 years old
8. Motassem Fawzy Abu Louley, 20 years old
9. Anas Hamdan Salim Qadeeh, 21 years old
10. Mohamed Abd Alsalam Harz, 21 years old
11. Yehia Ismail Rajab Aldaqoor, 22 years old
12. Mustafa Mohamed Samir Mahmoud Almasry, 22 years old
13. Ezz Eldeen Nahid Aloyutey, 23 years old
14. Mahmoud Mustafa Ahmed Assaf, 23 years old
15. Ahmed Fayez Harb Shahadah, 23 years old
16. Ahmed Awad Allah, 24 years old
17. Khalil Ismail Khalil Mansor, 25 years old
18. Mohamed Ashraf Abu Sitta, 26 years old
19. Bilal Ahmed Abu Diqah, 26 years old
20. Ahmed Majed Qaasim Ata Allah, 27 years old
21. Mahmoud Rabah Abu Maamar, 28 years old
22.Musab Yousef Abu Leilah, 28 years old
23. Ahmed Fawzy Altetr, 28 years old
24. Mohamed Abdelrahman Meqdad, 28 years old
25. Obaidah Salim Farhan, 30 years old
26. Jihad Mufid Al-Farra, 30 years old
27. Fadi Hassan Abu Salmi, 30 years old
28. Motaz Bassam Kamil Al-Nunu, 31 years old
29. Mohammed Riyad Abdulrahman Alamudi, 31 years old
30. Jihad Mohammed Othman Mousa, 31 years old
31. Shahir Mahmoud Mohammed Almadhoon, 32 years old
32. Mousa Jabr Abdulsalam Abu Hasnayn, 35 years old
33. Mohammed Mahmoud Abdulmoti Abdal’al, 39 years old
34. Ahmed Mohammed Ibrahim Hamdan, 27 years old
35. Ismail Khalil Ramadhan Aldaahuk, 30 years old
36. Ahmed Mahmoud Mohammed Alrantisi, 27 years old
37. Alaa Alnoor Ahmed Alkhatib, 28 years old
38. Mahmoud Yahya Abdawahab Hussain, 24 years old
39. Ahmed Abdullah Aladini, 30 years old
40. Saadi Said Fahmi Abu Salah, 16 years old
41. Ahmed Zahir Hamid Alshawa, 24 years old
42. Mohammed Hani Hosni Alnajjar, 33 years old
43. Fadl Mohamed Ata Habshy, 34 years old
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