we're in a precarious situation in regard to free speech in the US. in practice, there is bipartisan political agreement across our federal government that Palestinian lives are worth less than Israeli lives. our journalists do not accurately report on Israel's war on Palestinian journalists, let alone on the contours of the genocide. people who protest are unevenly brutalized, fired, silenced.
this is a refraction of reality that allows one people to kill another people. sound familiar?