Supporting Israel's war crimes has given Canadian commentators and politicians the licence to go full bore racist
Not many people like being called racist. Call someone a racist and they usually first and foremost, act offended. This is a basic fact. Try it if you’re curious.
Being a racist, though, is something different. It’s very easy to do racist things without even feeling bad about it. Racism in a society built on white supremacy is everywhere. Everywhere, everywhere, everywhere — literally everywhere you might look, you will see racism. And to get any level of power in Canada is very hard for white people if they aren’t, at some level, racist.
When someone is called a racist, they will either be proud of their racism (a minority) or pretend to be offended (a majority). The majority might be actually offended, perhaps even cry that you’ve called them out. So to do racism more comfortably, they need a cover.
And right now, Israel has given a perfect cover to So. Many. Racists.
To be So. Incredibly. Racist.
While it’s been clear from the start of Israel’s aggression that Israel’s leadership believes that Palestinians are inferior and subhuman, the general consensus among western media and politicians that Israel can do no wrong sometimes hides this very important starting point. Indeed, no country hurls itself towards doing genocide without a pre-campaign of mass dehumanization. Otherwise, average people wouldn’t stand to see such violence meted out against fellow humans. (more...)
The racist cloak of invisibility
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