All forms of violence are to be condemned
From the etymology dictionary online.
Violence – ”an injury, irreverence, profanation,” from past participle stem of violare “to treat with violence, outrage, dishonour,”
An act of physical violence against another is one expression of violence.
But violence comes in many forms.
Another form of violence is to deny people access to life-saving health care, even the insured.
Violence is to bring people to their knees through low wages, exploitation, aggregated power, and reduced access to law, housing, and hospitals. To cripple people with debt.
For the press secretary of the USA to state that violence against a CEO of an enterprise that perpetuates violence in everything they do, every day, is unacceptable, is to dismiss the systemic, insidious, cruel violence of the corporations and the governments and institutions, lobbyists and sponsored-by-violence politicians.
These actors live violence – they take earnings from artists, musicians, authors. They take our data and use it both for extreme profit and to weaponise the very people the data is extracted from. They throw people into the trash can of disposable when there is nothing more to extract. They sanction genocide.
I am against killing. I am against violence.
But when we fail to look at the actions of people held under enormous, systemic, endless violence in context, we are pointing fingers in the wrong place, seeking to blame the poor and crushed.
This pattern is repeating in every corner of the world. The true perpetrators of systemic violence want their victims to hold all the blame and be labelled violent. Or terrorists. Or whatever hate term is in vogue.
Before we rush to judge, look at the whole, the full context.
All forms of violence are to be condemned, not just the convenient ones.
Photo Taken July 13th 2024, Article written December 12th 2024
