Richard Mellor
I recall in my youth reading about the Roman games and that for entertainment they would have bulls ra*e women. I found that hard to believe. How is that possible? I am not going to describe how as what I read then described it. It still seemed so horrible and bizarre that I didn't really believe it. But here it comes up again.
The former IOF guy in the interview here is pretty convincing and he also talks about how Palestinians are hated by most Israeli's but after October the 7th, it's beyond hatred but a psychosis. That’s why we hear them say that all Palestinian children are the enemy and should be killed; they are not seen as human. The English bourgeois referred to the Irish as the “savage Race” and as “white Chimpanzees”.
This speaks to what human nature is and what it isn't. People will argue that humans are naturally greedy and individualistic, but this is simply not the case if we look at history. What we can become is dependent in the main on the conditions in which we live and the wider society.
Human beings have the ability to show great kindness, compassion and heroic sacrifice in defence of others or the weak and underrepresented; but we also have the capacity to be horrible, unkind and outright brutal. Human nature is not a static thing, and history shows that the latter example is the most prominent and a powerful tendency in us. Capitalism is an individualistic, selfish, dog eat dog system, it is very powerful and naturally influences how we live, think and behave. It makes us sick because it goes against our best instincts.
I remember a global study that asked women what they wanted (I think it was just women) most in a partner and the overwhelming response was solidarity. So, despite the massive amount of propaganda telling us what look is important, how one dresses, what one does for a living, or if they smoke the right cigarettes------as the Rolling Stone’s song goes, and “none” would be the more common answer today-----, they chose solidarity. Isn’t love really solidarity? Someone who empathizes, understands and sacrifices for the benefit of the unity of the whole. One who accepts that their own existence is tied to others.
There is such a thing as mass psychosis surely. In Na*i Germany, there was a huge percentage of German’s who agreed with the Na*i’s views about Jews. Folks, especially white brothers and sisters might want to read about Mary Turner whose husband along with 11 other black men had been lynched in retaliation for the killing of a white farmer. Mary denied her husband had been involved and threatened to sue the ring leaders and her own life was threatened so she fled. But they caught up with her. Her is a clip from John Jeter’s book; Class War in America—Are You a Worker or are You White
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It hard to imagine that people could behave this way. It’s not natural to us, it’s starts in society as a whole and serves the interests of the powerful.
This was not an isolated event. It took place in a society that birthed it, that encouraged it and that required it. The society could not function unless it demonized a whole section of the population, and native Americans suffered the same fate, just like the Zionists have done to the Palestinians. Malcolm X was correct when said that, “you can’t have capitalism without racism”.
The Palestinians stand in the way of an ethno-centric ruling class and its aims; they have to be othered. In order to colonize a people you have to demonize them to win support from your own working class without whose help, the elimination of the “vermin” would not be possible.
The pro-Zionist mass media always asks the question: Do you think Israel has a right to exist? It already exists of course, so it's a trick question. We would not say today that the US system of slavery in the south has a right to exist today. The majority of the people on the planet accept that the German state under Na*zi rule had no right to exist and indeed destroyed it. Israel, accused of genocide and ethnic cleansing of an entire population by most of the world's authorities on this matter, does not have the right to exist in its current form.
I do not disagree with Malcolm X but the fulcrum seems to hatred and othering with race and gender as easy routes to use. The brutality allowed by colonial and capital exploitation are shocking and have often moved the “ignorant” public consensus whilst the establishment busies itself with diversion, blame and furthering intolerance and hate. No doubt ensuring profitability on the way.
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