Credit where it's due, fraudian publishes column on Aaron Bushnell
Posted by RaskolnikovX on February 29, 2024, 6:37 am
It's not by one of their house hacks, although she is a fairly regular contributor and pretty terrible on some things, but here it's mostly good , at least on Aaron and Israel. It does wander off into a more general discussion of political violence and self-immolation in particular but still, credit where it's due.
I do not pretend to know the state of Bushnell’s mental health, to be able to parse the degree to which his political commitments may have mixed with other struggles to produce his self-killing. That is a question we will never be able to answer. Perhaps more importantly, it feels like the wrong question to ask, a way to avoid confrontation with the stated meaning of Bushnell’s self-immolation: that Israel is conducting a genocide in Gaza, one that is only possible with US money and US support, and that this moral catastrophe implicates all Americans in complicity. This is a serious proposition; one need not condone killing oneself in order to believe that it is worth taking seriously.
The highlighted line is the sort of truth that rarely appears in that rag so she'll no doubt be banished for a while