Ask an American about the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. A substantial portion will tell you it was necessary. Tragic, but necessary. It ended the war. It saved lives. Hard choices in impossible circumstances. Now ask them how they would feel if another country had done it to an American city. Watch the framework collapse in real time. Suddenly "necessary" is not a category that applies. Suddenly there are no hard choices and impossible circumstances. Suddenly it is simply: a crime. An act of war. An atrocity. This is not hypocrisy in the ordinary sense. This is a two-tiered moral universe so deeply internalized that most people living inside it cannot see the structure at all. Violence done to Americans is atrocity by definition. Violence done by Americans requires context. Requires understanding. Requires a discussion of the strategic situation. This is the psychological furniture. This is what empire builds inside the people who benefit from it. And it is almost invisible from the inside.

🚨🇹🇳BREAKING: TUNISIA SAYS GRETA THUNBERG'S "BOMBED" GAZA FLOTILLA ACTUALLY HAD CIGARETTE FIRE Tunisia's National Guard has declared claims of a drone attack on Greta Thunberg's Gaza flotilla boat "completely unfounded," saying the fire was caused by a lighter or cigarette butt in a life jacket. Tunisia National Guard (Facebook statement): "Initial investigations show that the fire on board the ship broke out in one of the life jackets as a result of a lighter or cigarette butt... There was no evidence of any hostile act or external targeting" Earlier, Greta Thunberg claimed: "I am currently at the port in Tunisia after one of our boats, carrying humanitarian aid, was bombed" National Guard spokesman Houcem Eddine Jebabli confirmed: "The investigation is ongoing and no drone has been detected" The "Sumud" flotilla had set sail from Barcelona aiming to break Israel's naval blockade of Gaza. The Portuguese-flagged boat's crew reported safe after the incident. Source: Tunisia National Guard/AFP/Reuters

White people didn't invent slavery. Here's the uncomfortable truth.

Adolf Hitler's regime sent people—most notably the Gestapo (secret police)—to the homes of those who called for his removal.