'On ‘Moral Panic’ and the Courage to Speak: The West’s Silence on Gaza'
Politicians, academics and religious leaders in the Global North, lack any Moral Fibre!
https://open.substack.com/pub/palestinechronicle/p/on-moral-panic-and-the-courage-to?r=iwr6t&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
#palestine #globalnorth #zionist #genocide #ethniccleansing
@Kletskous the right wing (i.e. the EPP/Renew/S&D/ECR/PfE faction) was NEVER going to stop trying to bring #ChatControl back, under various pretexts. They'll ALWAYS keep trying. Sadly, we no longer have a viable #PirateMovement, thanks to the #GlobalNorth parties' "leaderships".
Obama and Hillary Clinton on Bluesky in recent days. In Brazil, people from different groups generally imitate the global north. Let's see if European politicians follow this possible American trend.
@Miro_Collas but if you condemn this, the #GlobalNorth parties of the #EuropeanPirateParty (German, Dutch, Swedish) will accuse you of supporting "terrorism". @palestine
These days, talking to my partner, we discussed why many immigrants and refugees, in several situations, seem to have a more fearless attitude than those who grew up in a country like Germany. Few understand the extent of our constant contact with violence and how it shapes our perception of the world - whether as individuals or in our relationships with our families and friends. Perhaps they only know the surface of what it's like to live in such an unequal society, where this reality is imposed on us from birth. And in the end, people from countries like ours will always be reduced to stereotypes. And this is true for all of us who grew up in the global south, regardless of social class and possible differences in opportunity.
As a direct consequence, the majority of #GlobalSouth users who drift into the #Fediverse get disillusioned, and return/move on to #Facebook or #Twitter or #Threads.
The #GlobalNorth users on the Fediverse never even become aware of this loss; though many of them perceive the monotony of voices/topics, and silently move out; leaving behind a tiny, malnourished social medium.
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That’s it, that’s the mechanism.
Forget #GlobalNorth users, even #GlobalSouth users cannot find fellow users from their regions, or find posts about the global south, even if both exist.
This happens with most global south users, and with an overwhelming majority of the posts on global south topics.
That’s how #Mastodon, and the rest of the #Fediverse, invisiblize the global south.
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An overwhelming majority of #GlobalNorth users have no interest in #GlobalSouth topics. They neither follow users focussed on global south issues, nor boost or like posts on global south topics.
That’s their prerogative, of course; but that is also the root cause underlying the above dynamic. There is no obvious resolution to it, at least not within the narrow confines of the #Fediverse.
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Generalize mastodon.social in the above example to all mainstream, primarily #GlobalNorth, #Mastodon servers. No user on any of those servers will ever become aware of user X’s post containing #Namibia, even if some of them consciously search for the term.
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That's how racism spreads. A 2025 German textbook published by Mildenberger Verlag teaches children that while a German child plays the guitar after school, a Brazilian child doesn’t go to school at all - he collects garbage to survive.
This isn't just a stereotype; it's a deliberate reinforcement of racist narratives. When such depictions go unchallenged, they shape perceptions, justify inequality, and fuel the rise of parties like the AfD, whose racism is no accident - it's fomented.
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