murder is what happens when individuals kill each other. when it’s a state apparatus killing nations, it’s called war.
there is no Whiteness, no Manifest Destiny, no American Exceptionalism without rape, slavery, murder; without invasion, colonialism, war.
Branfman almost killed two dark-skinned Israelis because, to racists like him, peoples who fight back ―like Puerto Ricans in 1899 and Palestinians today― are niggardly grotesqueries who can't be colonialized. so kill them. /🧵