Every Condemnation Is A Reading Recommendation

America’s enemies list is a good reading list

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15 min readMay 13, 2024
Virgil Reading the “Aeneid” to Augustus, Octavia, and Livia, who can’t fucking take it

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I have learned three things about America since leaving America. The first is that I didn’t leave America, it’s a big White Empire and I’m still in it! The second is that every accusation is a confession. For every finger pointing out, a billion middle fingers point right back at America. The third is to take every condemnation as a reading recommendation. America’s enemies list makes for an excellent reading list. That’s what we’ll discuss here. The only thing that recommends Empire is its book recommendations.

Hamas

Take Hamas, for example. Western liberals secularly cross themselves before saying they support Palestine, by disavowing Hamas. These are useless people, who preserve the status quo (which is genocide, but feeling bad about it, later). As Saffouri01 said, “whoever is in solidarity with our corpses but not our rockets, is a hypocrite and not one of us.” Hamas is just a moderate political party within Palestine which has assembled a Palestinian military, which they of all people deserve. While ‘Israel’ has been building facts on the ground re: settlements Hamas has been building facts underground re: resistance. More power to them. I support Hamas…

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Indrajit (Indi) Samarajiva is a Sri Lankan writer. Follow me at www.indi.ca, or just email me at indi@indi.ca.