What are you reading Wednesday?

[frenzy]

What have you finished reading?

Paying the Land by Joe Sacco - This is such a dense comic, but interesting to see the ways the indigenous people of Canada were displaced and had their power taken away, as opposed to the US, where they mostly just straight up did a genocide on entire nations. I can't say this book has a happy ending, but its hopeful, which is probably the best you can hope for with the subject matter.

What are you currently reading?

Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics by Marc Lamont Hill and Mitchell Plitnick - I've only read the forward last night, but I'm hoping to get a better grasp on israel/palastine without feeling like im eventually running into antisemitism (whihc i recognise is partially my own knee-jerk reaction). The forward was mostly "yeah, trump isnt president anymore, and thats good, but biden is just business as usual" with, like, yeah.

Comments

[sabotabby]

And there's a reminder to put a hold on Paying the Land.

Canada also straight-up did a genocide. It's more that the US tradition is to crow loudly about the genocides they do whereas we deny deny deny and then shed a theatrical single tear and then keep genociding away.

I hope Except For Palestine is useful. I thought it was really good.

[armiphlage]

Came here to say the same thing. And our genociding is still going on.

[frenzy]

oh yeah what i wrote there and then what has come out and what i learned. Kind of a big oof here.

[sabotabby]

Absolutely.