It is the same indoctrination, the same lens, the same dehumanising rhetoric that has been mass-murdering people for over five centuries: a colonised mind.
A mind of a coloniser.
Interestingly, you don’t need to be from a country that engaged in colonisation of other lands to have that mind — and to keep it.
I start my episode with a quote from a play I saw in a theatre in Rio almost exactly a year ago. It was still relatively early in the Gaza genocide.
Thirteen months into this openly declared, publicly broadcasted, and cowardly supported (by our governments) extermination of people, some still refuse to see the humanity of the Palestinians. They choose to dehumanise themselves by dehumanising others.
This isn’t new. Quite the opposite: it’s been around for centuries. It’s the mind – and the eyes – of a coloniser.
My episode is really not for everyone. But I invite you to check how a certain training might have been installed in you — and to uninstall it with an urgency that this horrifying time in history demands.
Stay strong, check on others, and keep your heart open.
❤️💔❤️
Justina
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