I don’t know what to say that hasn’t already been said, another Palestinian has been murdered by the occupation, and one known by so many of us as a journalist on Al Jazeera - Shireen Abu Aqla cannot be forgotten, may she rest
Ali Samoudi, another Palestinian journalist, was shot in the back. He is hospitalised + stable. Obviously idf is trying to deny it and blame it on “palestinian gunmen”.
The level of evil it is to shoot a Palestinian journalist in the head, falsely claim you didn’t do it, and then send the military to attack her funeral, the mourners, and forcefully rip the Palestinian flag off her coffin. It’s monstrous.
ID: Tweet one by Yara Alafandi @/ AfandiYara reads: Israeli police forcing a Palestinian woman to take off her hijab because it’s the same colours as the Palestinian flag and you’re still arguing that Israel isn’t an apartheid state? #Shereen_Abu_Aqleh
Tweet two by disorientalist @/ princessmlokhia reads: Colonizers in Hebron took the collective Palestinian mourning for Shireen as a chance to sieze a new building in the city. Look at them, bold and pathetic. When we say Israel is a settler-colony we mean it in the most literal sense.
The level of evil it is to shoot a Palestinian journalist in the head, falsely claim you didn’t do it, and then send the military to attack her funeral, the mourners, and forcefully rip the Palestinian flag off her coffin. It’s monstrous.
ID: Tweet one by Yara Alafandi @/ AfandiYara reads: Israeli police forcing a Palestinian woman to take off her hijab because it’s the same colours as the Palestinian flag and you’re still arguing that Israel isn’t an apartheid state? #Shereen_Abu_Aqleh
Tweet two by disorientalist @/ princessmlokhia reads: Colonizers in Hebron took the collective Palestinian mourning for Shireen as a chance to sieze a new building in the city. Look at them, bold and pathetic. When we say Israel is a settler-colony we mean it in the most literal sense.
Saying the quiet part out loud. The west is demanding blood - the deaths of millions of Chinese people - in order to sustain Apple’s stock price a little longer.
I think there’s something really telling about the fact that KE, which was never meant to be a show about redemption, spent a whole season forcing a queer main character into a plot heavily driven by religion and then at the end of it all claimed that same queer character’s death was a rebirth or cleansing for her partner, who was formerly straight. There is just something really disgusting about that whole thought process, especially when they then topped it off with bloody angel wings and some sort of ascension to a higher plane, when we know that V didn’t believe in any such thing. Why was this arc that tried to redeem a character who didn’t need redeeming introduced and then backed up with rhetoric that makes it appear that this “redemption” was more about returning her partner to “normalcy” (read heteronormative) than about her own actual redemption? The homophobia is just bubbling under the surface and really makes you start to wonder if the choices that we all find so vile and shocking were made as ignorantly as we’ve assumed. Rather, these may have been very deliberate choices that are having the exact impact that was intended
People are actively encouraging hate towards Moses Ingram under the guise of “fair criticism.”
People are insulting how she chose to wear her hair natural, they’re calling her “a diversity hire.” They’re all ranting about how she’s “stealing the show from Obi Wan,” when Obi Wan is still the focus of the show. People are hating on her for her natural hair. I’ve seen them insulting her for her “nappy hair.”
Let’s be real, if Reva was a white man, she’d be universally loved. People hating her for “being angry,” would call Reva badass if she was a white man. Her ambition would be praised, and so would her attitude. But no, Reva is a black woman, and these so-called “fans” hate her for it.
Moses Ingram opened up about how she was apprehensive because she knew Star Wars fans might harass her because of her race and gender (and, if you look at the fan response to her character, she was literally right), and y'know how these fans reacted?
My sympathies to Moses Ingram, she really risked it all for this role, only to be met with such disgusting behavior. I really hope she’s okay, and I hope that you’ll all show her support, because she doesn’t deserve this.
