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Omar El Akkad Quote: “A reporter is supposed to agitate against power, against privilege. Against the slimy wall of press releases and PR nothingspeak that has come to protect every major business and government boardroom ever since Watergate. A reporter is supposed to agitate against silence.”

51. “A reporter is supposed to agitate against power, against privilege. Against the slimy wall of press releases and PR nothingspeak that has come to protect every major business and government boardroom ever since Watergate. A reporter is supposed to agitate against silence.”

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Omar El Akkad Quote: “It’s come to shape the way I think about every country, every community: Whose nonexistence is necessary to the self-conception of this place, and how uncontrollable is the rage whenever that nonexistence is violated?”

52. “It’s come to shape the way I think about every country, every community: Whose nonexistence is necessary to the self-conception of this place, and how uncontrollable is the rage whenever that nonexistence is violated?”

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Omar El Akkad Quote: “Some things are complicated. Some things have been complicated.”

53. “Some things are complicated. Some things have been complicated.”

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Omar El Akkad Quote: “To watch the descriptions of Palestinian suffering in much of mainstream Western media is to watch language employed for the exact opposite of language’s purpose – to watch the unmaking of meaning.”

54. “To watch the descriptions of Palestinian suffering in much of mainstream Western media is to watch language employed for the exact opposite of language’s purpose – to watch the unmaking of meaning.”

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Omar El Akkad Quote: “Unlike the river and the bush and the beasts and birds of the natural world, the lipstick did not interest her; it held no promise of adventure.”

55. “Unlike the river and the bush and the beasts and birds of the natural world, the lipstick did not interest her; it held no promise of adventure.”

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Omar El Akkad Quote: “But to say this – that mainstream liberal parties will never develop a moral compass until they are punished for not having one – produces a level of antagonistic vitriol unmatched in almost any other context. Waves.”

56. “But to say this – that mainstream liberal parties will never develop a moral compass until they are punished for not having one – produces a level of antagonistic vitriol unmatched in almost any other context. Waves.”

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Omar El Akkad Quote: “A political system that won’t restrict firearms even after a shooter massacres classrooms full of children, a system that shrugs when a regime murders and dismembers a journalist because that regime controls an inordinate amount of oil, a system that won’t flinch at the images of starving babies when it has the power to save their lives – what manner of resistance can’t such a system learn to abide? What use is any of it, what use?”

57. “A political system that won’t restrict firearms even after a shooter massacres classrooms full of children, a system that shrugs when a regime murders and dismembers a journalist because that regime controls an inordinate amount of oil, a system that won’t flinch at the images of starving babies when it has the power to save their lives – what manner of resistance can’t such a system learn to abide? What use is any of it, what use?”

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Omar El Akkad Quote: “The walking away is not nihilism, it’s not cynicism, it’s not doing nothing – it’s a form of engagement more honest, more soul-affirming, than anything the system was ever prepared to offer.”

58. “The walking away is not nihilism, it’s not cynicism, it’s not doing nothing – it’s a form of engagement more honest, more soul-affirming, than anything the system was ever prepared to offer.”

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Omar El Akkad Quote: “The afflicted don’t need comforting, they need what the comfortable have always had.”

59. “The afflicted don’t need comforting, they need what the comfortable have always had.”

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Omar El Akkad Quote: “The moral component of history, the most necessary component, is simply a single question, asked over and over again: When it mattered, who sided with justice and who sided with power? What makes moments such as this one so dangerous, so clarifying, is that one way or another everyone is forced to answer.”

60. “The moral component of history, the most necessary component, is simply a single question, asked over and over again: When it mattered, who sided with justice and who sided with power? What makes moments such as this one so dangerous, so clarifying, is that one way or another everyone is forced to answer.”

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Omar El Akkad Quote: “Jettisoning the requirement to report news in favor of inciting the rage and fear and hatred of your audience before serving them up ads for guns and bunkers is a perfectly functional business model.”

61. “Jettisoning the requirement to report news in favor of inciting the rage and fear and hatred of your audience before serving them up ads for guns and bunkers is a perfectly functional business model.”

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Omar El Akkad Quote: “I wanted for the part of the world where I believed there existed a fundamental kind of freedom. The freedom to become something better than what you were born into, the freedom that comes with an inherent fairness of treatment under law and order and social norm, the freedom to read and write and speak without fear. And more than any of these things, the freedom to be left alone.”

62. “I wanted for the part of the world where I believed there existed a fundamental kind of freedom. The freedom to become something better than what you were born into, the freedom that comes with an inherent fairness of treatment under law and order and social norm, the freedom to read and write and speak without fear. And more than any of these things, the freedom to be left alone.”

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Omar El Akkad Quote: “It’s impossible to do the work of journalism, or at least serious journalism, and not be forced to make some kind of peace with the reality that you will be, many times over, a tourist in someone else’s misery. You will drop into the lives of people suffering the worst things human beings can do to one another. And no matter how empathetic or sincere or even apologetic for your privilege you may be, when you are done you will exercise the privilege of leaving.”

63. “It’s impossible to do the work of journalism, or at least serious journalism, and not be forced to make some kind of peace with the reality that you will be, many times over, a tourist in someone else’s misery. You will drop into the lives of people suffering the worst things human beings can do to one another. And no matter how empathetic or sincere or even apologetic for your privilege you may be, when you are done you will exercise the privilege of leaving.”

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Omar El Akkad Quote: “It seemed to Karina further proof that wartime was the only time the world became as simple and carnivorously liberating as it must exist at all times in men’s minds.”

64. “It seemed to Karina further proof that wartime was the only time the world became as simple and carnivorously liberating as it must exist at all times in men’s minds.”

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Omar El Akkad Quote: “A world that shrugs at one kind of slaughter has developed a terrible immunity. No atrocity is too great to shrug away now, the muscles of indifference having been sufficiently conditioned.”

65. “A world that shrugs at one kind of slaughter has developed a terrible immunity. No atrocity is too great to shrug away now, the muscles of indifference having been sufficiently conditioned.”

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Omar El Akkad Quote: “I saw the terrible wrath of the place, saw it obliterate hundreds of thousands of people with names and ethnicity and religion like mine, knew for certain that there were deep ugly cracks in the bedrock of this thing called “the free world.” And yet I believed the cracks could be fixed, that the thing at the core, whatever it was, was salvageable. Until the fall of 2023. Until the slaughter.”

66. “I saw the terrible wrath of the place, saw it obliterate hundreds of thousands of people with names and ethnicity and religion like mine, knew for certain that there were deep ugly cracks in the bedrock of this thing called “the free world.” And yet I believed the cracks could be fixed, that the thing at the core, whatever it was, was salvageable. Until the fall of 2023. Until the slaughter.”

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Omar El Akkad Quote: “And it may seem now like it’s someone else’s children, but there’s no such thing as someone else’s children.”

67. “And it may seem now like it’s someone else’s children, but there’s no such thing as someone else’s children.”

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Omar El Akkad Quote: “There was a time, mostly forgotten now, when almost every centrist institution in this country bent over backward to describe Donald Trump’s appeal as a function of some kind of “economic anxiety.” The alternative – that millions of Americans want desperately for people who don’t look and live and believe the way they do to suffer without end – was too unpleasant to consider, too much an indictment of something bigger than one man’s campaign.”

68. “There was a time, mostly forgotten now, when almost every centrist institution in this country bent over backward to describe Donald Trump’s appeal as a function of some kind of “economic anxiety.” The alternative – that millions of Americans want desperately for people who don’t look and live and believe the way they do to suffer without end – was too unpleasant to consider, too much an indictment of something bigger than one man’s campaign.”

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Omar El Akkad Quote: “And the obvious centrist refrain – But do you want the deranged right wing to win? – should, after even a moment of self-reflection, yield to a far more important question: How empty does your message have to be for a deranged right wing to even have a chance of winning?”

69. “And the obvious centrist refrain – But do you want the deranged right wing to win? – should, after even a moment of self-reflection, yield to a far more important question: How empty does your message have to be for a deranged right wing to even have a chance of winning?”

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Omar El Akkad Quote: “Colonialism demands history begin past the point of colonization precisely because, under those narrative conditions, the colonist’s every action is necessarily one of self-defense. The story begins not when the wagons arrive, but only after they are circled.”

70. “Colonialism demands history begin past the point of colonization precisely because, under those narrative conditions, the colonist’s every action is necessarily one of self-defense. The story begins not when the wagons arrive, but only after they are circled.”

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Omar El Akkad Quote: “Anyone who has dragged a relative out from under the wreckage of a bombed building, who has held a friend bleeding to death in the street while the officer who pulled the trigger looks on, who has watched their water poisoned, their land burned, their communities starved, is intimately well versed in love. But in the eyes of the empire such a thing can never be called love, because the directive was never in the first place, Love, but rather, Love me. In spite of it all, love me.”

71. “Anyone who has dragged a relative out from under the wreckage of a bombed building, who has held a friend bleeding to death in the street while the officer who pulled the trigger looks on, who has watched their water poisoned, their land burned, their communities starved, is intimately well versed in love. But in the eyes of the empire such a thing can never be called love, because the directive was never in the first place, Love, but rather, Love me. In spite of it all, love me.”

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Omar El Akkad Quote: “But there’s a fraudulence to those excuses, no different than when my wife and I found out we were having a girl, and I spent weeks and weeks considering baby names that would work in the West and the Middle East, that would allow her to pass through many worlds untroubled.”

72. “But there’s a fraudulence to those excuses, no different than when my wife and I found out we were having a girl, and I spent weeks and weeks considering baby names that would work in the West and the Middle East, that would allow her to pass through many worlds untroubled.”

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Omar El Akkad Quote: “How empty does your message have to be for a deranged right wing to even have a chance of winning? Of all the epitaphs that may one day be written on the gravestone of Western liberalism, the most damning is this: Faced off against a nihilistic, endlessly cruel manifestation of conservatism, and somehow managed to make it close.”

73. “How empty does your message have to be for a deranged right wing to even have a chance of winning? Of all the epitaphs that may one day be written on the gravestone of Western liberalism, the most damning is this: Faced off against a nihilistic, endlessly cruel manifestation of conservatism, and somehow managed to make it close.”

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Omar El Akkad Quote: “A person the system was never built to serve bears the responsibility of dreaming up a better one, and who can say how much better?”

74. “A person the system was never built to serve bears the responsibility of dreaming up a better one, and who can say how much better?”

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Omar El Akkad Quote: “The truth and reconciliation committees are coming. The land acknowledgements are coming. The very sorry descendants are coming.”

75. “The truth and reconciliation committees are coming. The land acknowledgements are coming. The very sorry descendants are coming.”

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Omar El Akkad Quote: “It is a hallmark of failing societies, I’ve learned, this requirement that one always be in possession of a valid reason to exist.”

76. “It is a hallmark of failing societies, I’ve learned, this requirement that one always be in possession of a valid reason to exist.”

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Omar El Akkad Quote: “Among the more troubling trends of twenty-first-century American politics is the normalization of every election as the existential one, the one upon whose results rests the very survival of American democracy. In one way or another, there is some truth to this claim.”

77. “Among the more troubling trends of twenty-first-century American politics is the normalization of every election as the existential one, the one upon whose results rests the very survival of American democracy. In one way or another, there is some truth to this claim.”

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Omar El Akkad Quote: “Whatever the empire is, it has no idea what to do with this kind of love, which adheres neither to the empire’s own central principle of self-interest nor to the adjoining principle that solidarity is only with one’s own, that love for one’s people may never become love for another.”

78. “Whatever the empire is, it has no idea what to do with this kind of love, which adheres neither to the empire’s own central principle of self-interest nor to the adjoining principle that solidarity is only with one’s own, that love for one’s people may never become love for another.”

— Omar El Akkad

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