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Talk about Aleppo. Cry for them like you cried for Paris. Cry for them like you cried for New York. Talk about them. Our silence is killing them. They are people, PEOPLE. Are they not important because they’re arabs? because they’re Syrian? Do their lives matter less than the life of a French or an American? People from Aleppo are posting their goodbye messages on the internet as a final massacre is expected to happen any time soon and we are SILENT. We have been silent for over five years. Some children in Aleppo don’t know life without war. Imagine living in a city of ruins and having to fear for your life every instant. Hospitals, churches, houses, restaurants are bombed on the daily and hundreds are killed every single day. Yet we are silent. Remember them. Honor them. We’ve allowed a mass genocide to happen before our eyes for years. It’s burning is a testament of our moral failure. Talk about Aleppo, please.

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jgardner

surroundedbytheworld

Es muy difícil no pertenecer a un grupo, a una tribu, a una patria, a lo que sea, con tal de que sea seguro y colectivo, de que ofrezca una protección incondicional, si bien al precio de abdicar del derecho al libre pensamiento: a cambiar de opinión, a no ajustarse a lo que se exige o se espera o se da por supuesto de uno, a no aprobar todas y cada una de las cosas que hacen aquellos de los que uno mismo se siente más cerca, a los que uno ha defendido, los que sin embargo no aceptarán que se aparte ni un milímetro de la ortodoxia que ellos mismos marcan.

Antonio Muñoz Molina, en Todo lo que era sólido (2013)