A “snap” is taken on the spur of the moment — suddenly, unexpectedly or without notice — a snap judgment, when people expose their inner selves and values.
This occurs with individuals but with nations and society as well. Like the incident in New York’s Central Park where a liberal white woman called the police on a Black man during a dispute about her unleashed dog. Here in America, we have Kamala Harris and the democrats give lip service to American ideals …then we have Trump and the Republicans expose the ugly America, they are American snaps ”
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MEDIA SHAMEFUL COVERAGE OF STUDENT PROTESTS!!
MEDIA SHAMEFUL COVERAGE OF ANTI-WAR PROTESTS!!
Student protests broke up in over 100 university campuses in America, from Ivy League, Harvard, Yale, Columbia, N.Y.U., Michigan, and here the University of Minnesota. Started with Columbia’s President calling on New York Police to disperse student encampments; Minouche Shafik an Egyptian American who stained the great Palestinian American Edward Said legacy at Columbia University. Police with guns, full gear, and armored vehicles with a bridging mechanism got onto campus, using rubber bullets and tear gas on peaceful protests.
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How Football Explains the War Between Israel and Palestinians
The Jewish-Polish sociologist Zygmunt Bauman says in his brilliant book Modernity and the Holocaust that through history, most of the atrocities have been committed by people who follow orders and law, so what we need now to stop the Israeli genocide in Gaza for some Israeli soldiers to stop following orders, stop playing football and starts playing the beautiful game of Soccer!
How Football Explains the War Between Israel and Palestinians
Since the Israeli attack on Gaza where, in the last four months, a massive, indiscriminate bombing has killed over 30,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children. Destruction of a city of almost 3 million people. Lots of pundits, political analysts, military experts, and historians have been trying to explain the conflict and understand the Israeli Army’s barbarity and the human cruelty of the world that is watching as if it were a football match. If you want to understand the Americans’ fascination with the Zionist state and why so the Palestinian human tragedy story does not move many Americans? Americans’ justifications for their support for the Zionist state, some political, some religious, with millions of Christian Zionists, and getting God in the real estate business and worshiping land is not the way to go. But there is a cultural reason behind American fascination with Israeli aggression and violence:
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