Telegenically Dead
“Social media has been described as “humanising” the Palestinian victims. . . If you are being “humanised”, you are already losing. To be “humanised” implies that your humanity is never assumed, but something you have to prove.”
“For every group that uses media to affirm its humanity, there is another group proclaiming that humanity as irrelevant, or inconvenient, or a lie. One can see this not only in the Middle East conflict, but in movements like Nigeria’s “Bring Back Our Girls”, frequently proclaimed “forgotten” due to their so-called “nameless and faceless” victims. But the girls were never nameless and faceless to the Nigerians who fought, and continue to fight, for their survival. They have names that few learned, faces from which many turned away.”
- Sarah Kendzior, “The Telegenically Dead”
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