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Re: Acts of political violence are often designed to be witnessed.

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The Starmaker wrote:
> 
> "Acts of political violence are often designed to be witnessed.
> Executions, massacres, rapes, and lynchings are frequently performed in
> front of audiences or carried out in ways that leave traces for all to
> see. And even when such acts are ostensibly concealed, they are
> sometimes  covered up so neglectfully that one is left to wonder whether the
> discovery isn’t part of the perpetrators’ strategy. Such formations of
> violence  produce political effects in part through their theatricality.
> Staged violence elicits a range of affective responses from audiences,
> including fear, shock, and horror but also pleasure."


There is two sides to every coin...

https://www.wsj.com/video/series/on-the-news/we-dont-know-where-to-go-gazans-on-israels-evacuation-demand/249F58A8-E8CD-4099-B927-B8356404BBDB

which side of the coin are they showing you?

-- 
The Starmaker -- To question the unquestionable, ask the unaskable,
to think the unthinkable, mention the unmentionable, say the unsayable, 
and challenge the unchallengeable.

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Re: Acts of political violence are often designed to be witnessed. The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2023-10-13 12:08 -0700
  Re: Acts of political violence are often designed to be witnessed. The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2023-10-13 15:17 -0700
    Re: Acts of political violence are often designed to be witnessed. Siri Cruise <chine.bleu@www.yahoo.com> - 2023-10-13 16:00 -0700
    Re: Acts of political violence are often designed to be witnessed. The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2023-10-14 12:41 -0700

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