5LL #278: Genocide, Arrests, Evil, Exhaustion, Domination
The Charge of Genocide
Darryl Li, Dissent
South Africa’s willingness to file a case with the International Court of Justice is a sign that the old tactics used to police discourse about genocide have lost much of their power.
Why Get Arrested?
Avi Steinberg, n+1
The recent shift toward antizionist mass organizing must be succeeding, given how much it unsettles people.
Novel Evil
Miriam Gordis, The New Inquiry
The Holocaust is popularly narrativized through tropes that erase resistance efforts in favor of redemption arcs, redefining “never again” to the advantage of fascists.
Sick and Tired
Ajay Singh Chaudhary, The Baffler
Exhaustion can be more than a “prism” through which to view debates regarding social and ecological reproduction; it can be a potent point-of-view and starting position for the politics of left-wing climate realism.
Against Domination
William Clare Roberts, Boston Review
Freedom means being in control of what others can do to you.