Journal of Other Forum Analysis (Volume II, Issue 2)

[Eric Cartman]

The contradictions that plague the African continent for the sake of Western imperialism don't penetrate the news cycles not only because the West's cultural foundations are rooted in sheer antipathy to African and Black life, but also because many of these contradictions inevitably become intracontinental, such as Rwanda's role in the DRC's suffering, and so the conflicts are filtered as just "civil war" or "clashes" or "famine" back to the Imperial Core without any clarifying context as to our direct and indirect role within this mass suffering. The physical and narrative distance creates apathy compared to, say, anything Trump does because what Trump does directly affects people within the Core, humans who inevitably matter more than some mere "statistics" in Sudan.

Bitch, you wrote off russias invasion of the ukraine as wypipo nonsense, but because people don't record shit like the rwandan genocides as actually all the wests fault somehow, its because the news is rooted in anti-blackness?

Gaza was largely the same way up until recently, with most people just looking at the Middle East as this mishmash of "centuries'-long conflicts," as just "people who have been fighting forever and can't seem to get along." What happened is that not only were we given mountains of horrific 4K footage documenting what was always obviously a genocide, but Western politicians- even the "good ones"- were nonetheless in support of the cleansing despite people screaming at them to stop it, exposing a major contradiction that has always underlied Western hegemony and has thus chipped away at unbridled support in neoliberal institutions. Gaza was the curtain being pulled on the Wizard. The African contininent as a whole has not had its curtain-pulling moment yet for the masses.

PLEASE give me a TEDTalk on the historical roots of conflict in the middle east. PLEASE.