Conditioning, mainly insidious, is ubiquitous. In the main, it is also unfortunate. Its worst feature is not so much the false portrayals, ideologies and stereotypes that it creates - as unfortunate or even destructive as they may be, but that the majority don't realise that is has affected them. It is so powerful that they will deny inconsistency, refute reality and defend hypocrisy.
This article has great value in its highlighting of this fact. Unfortunately, too many will dismiss, not understand or ignore it.
Until all of humanity - or at least the majority of it - understands that we are of one race, regardless of our differences, and that our similarities, the universalities that connect us, and the ubiquity of feelings - whether positive or negative, are felt by us all and more important than constructed agendas and difference as deficit or worse, life will be degraded for most of us and insanity promoted by demagogues will continue.
Thank your for raising this issue. It is highly important, in my view.
I've noticed this trend as well. There's also a trend in Muslim social media to idealize white converts, especially young, pretty white women, while mostly ignoring the many converts who are Black, Asian, male, etc. White pro-Palestine activists seem to be given more prominence also. Racism is deeply ingrained, even on the side I've chosen to ally with.
A sad result of psychological conditioning indeed. And the reason why white-looking perpetrators of violence, including Zionists, get away with so much more. While a brown person doing something evokes immediate racism and demonization.
Yes, exactly this the Palestinian movement in the West is overtaken by white people. In the history of liberation, never has someone not from the oppressed group led the movement, and to success. Others can be allies but that's not what we are seeing. It has been taken over and arguably, it's why though they've had lots of successes in protest and BDS, the movement is quite stagnant and doesn't do much else (e.g. public education, media training, legal training etc).
We are also seeing a huge amount of praise put upon white people when they do the bear minimum in standing up against genocide - something non-white people have been shouting up against for decades. In a way however, it could be inverted and read as a subliminal acceptance that Western culture permits and perpetuates violence and it is shocking when someone from it speaks up against it? That they must be heaped with praise lest they turn back again? It sometimes feels like that is what is happening.
This is exactly true and it has been so distressing to see this: that people also instinctively know that in order to gain sympathy of those in the West, they must show the blue-eyed and blonde victims of genocide. Truly, all lives are not equal in the eyes of the states we are in, so much rests on melanin.
I know people lebanon and palestine who deliberately post photos of white Arab children victims and they do it because they know its the only way they will get any sympathy for their people even if they don’t look that way themselves. They have an it is what it is attitude. If that’s what gets europeans upset then better that than seeing them as just more suffering brown people.
I submit the angles of these pictures tilts perception: from under on left to emphasise the nose and lips/mouth; left, head tilted to de-emphasise both of these features. Doesn’t convince. Moreover, the crinkly hair is predominantly Hebraic, in my observation.
Conditioning, mainly insidious, is ubiquitous. In the main, it is also unfortunate. Its worst feature is not so much the false portrayals, ideologies and stereotypes that it creates - as unfortunate or even destructive as they may be, but that the majority don't realise that is has affected them. It is so powerful that they will deny inconsistency, refute reality and defend hypocrisy.
This article has great value in its highlighting of this fact. Unfortunately, too many will dismiss, not understand or ignore it.
Until all of humanity - or at least the majority of it - understands that we are of one race, regardless of our differences, and that our similarities, the universalities that connect us, and the ubiquity of feelings - whether positive or negative, are felt by us all and more important than constructed agendas and difference as deficit or worse, life will be degraded for most of us and insanity promoted by demagogues will continue.
Thank your for raising this issue. It is highly important, in my view.
Take care. Stay safe. ☮️
As a psychologist, I fully agree with this comment. Well said.
The colonial rot runs deep😔 I'm seeing it everywhere. Alas, it's a worldwide issue.
I've noticed this trend as well. There's also a trend in Muslim social media to idealize white converts, especially young, pretty white women, while mostly ignoring the many converts who are Black, Asian, male, etc. White pro-Palestine activists seem to be given more prominence also. Racism is deeply ingrained, even on the side I've chosen to ally with.
A sad result of psychological conditioning indeed. And the reason why white-looking perpetrators of violence, including Zionists, get away with so much more. While a brown person doing something evokes immediate racism and demonization.
Yes, that's why the IDF print paste photo of 'cutsie' female IDF soldiers on their social media pages
Yes, exactly this the Palestinian movement in the West is overtaken by white people. In the history of liberation, never has someone not from the oppressed group led the movement, and to success. Others can be allies but that's not what we are seeing. It has been taken over and arguably, it's why though they've had lots of successes in protest and BDS, the movement is quite stagnant and doesn't do much else (e.g. public education, media training, legal training etc).
We are also seeing a huge amount of praise put upon white people when they do the bear minimum in standing up against genocide - something non-white people have been shouting up against for decades. In a way however, it could be inverted and read as a subliminal acceptance that Western culture permits and perpetuates violence and it is shocking when someone from it speaks up against it? That they must be heaped with praise lest they turn back again? It sometimes feels like that is what is happening.
Definitely. I have been discussing and writing about these things for quite a long time.
Check our interview on our BettBeat Media youtube channel called "Whose Voices claim the Palestine Dialogue? - with Laith Marouf"
This is exactly true and it has been so distressing to see this: that people also instinctively know that in order to gain sympathy of those in the West, they must show the blue-eyed and blonde victims of genocide. Truly, all lives are not equal in the eyes of the states we are in, so much rests on melanin.
I know people lebanon and palestine who deliberately post photos of white Arab children victims and they do it because they know its the only way they will get any sympathy for their people even if they don’t look that way themselves. They have an it is what it is attitude. If that’s what gets europeans upset then better that than seeing them as just more suffering brown people.
I agree with you, but your unnecessary content warning and then self-whitewashing serves the enemy.
I submit the angles of these pictures tilts perception: from under on left to emphasise the nose and lips/mouth; left, head tilted to de-emphasise both of these features. Doesn’t convince. Moreover, the crinkly hair is predominantly Hebraic, in my observation.