On February 25, 2024, Aaron Bushnell, a 25-year-old serviceman of the United States Air Force, died after setting himself on fire outside the front gate of the Embassy of Israel in Washington, D.C. Immediately before the act… Bushnell said that he was protesting against “what people have been experiencing in Palestine at the hands of their colonizers” and declared that he “will no longer be complicit in genocide”
The fact there have been two is astounding to me. Im sincerely interested in the psychology behind this. What would lead to this with such a horrific outcome?
Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.
When a revolutionary speaks truth and justice to sheep they hate them for it. The sheep want the convenient, short term comfort of bandwagon safety. They’ll readily sacrifice their shallow moral and ethical principles to defend this feeling. They’ll viscously attack all who disturb it.
Some of us commit our lives to the fight for future lives of dignity. Some communicate with words, some with actions, and many with both. But, words are increasingly meaningless: Our semantic appropriated, reading comprehension taking a nose dive, attention spans less than a minute, human communication itself corrupted in capitalization of technology.
Aaron Bushnell killed himself to communicate with you. It’s not horrific. It’s what’s necessary.
And then I realized they were stronger than we. Because they could stand that these were not monsters. These were men … trained cadres. These men who fought with their hearts, who had families, who had children, who were filled with love … but they had the strength … the strength … to do that. If I had ten divisions of those men, then our troubles here would be over very quickly.
Because they would be labeled as a terrorist and promptly dismissed. Gandhi wasn’t perfect, but he knew how to get shit done. The US is the most destructive and lethal country in the world, just like Kamala said at the DNC.
OP’s article not only discusses Aaron Bushnell but also points out that this is in fact the third.
Holding a Palestinian flag, a female protester also self-immolated outside an Israeli consulate building in Atlanta in December, in what US police described as “an extreme act of political protest.”
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secondthird one. Here’s the second:Source
The fact there have been two is astounding to me. Im sincerely interested in the psychology behind this. What would lead to this with such a horrific outcome?
I wanted to come back to this because it’s important. https://www.npr.org/2024/02/27/1233985097/self-immolation-political-protesters-history-aaron-bushnell
Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.
When a revolutionary speaks truth and justice to sheep they hate them for it. The sheep want the convenient, short term comfort of bandwagon safety. They’ll readily sacrifice their shallow moral and ethical principles to defend this feeling. They’ll viscously attack all who disturb it.
Some of us commit our lives to the fight for future lives of dignity. Some communicate with words, some with actions, and many with both. But, words are increasingly meaningless: Our semantic appropriated, reading comprehension taking a nose dive, attention spans less than a minute, human communication itself corrupted in capitalization of technology.
Aaron Bushnell killed himself to communicate with you. It’s not horrific. It’s what’s necessary.
The US being complicit with the genocide of Palestinians led to both…
But suicide by self immolation because of it?
Why? What drives a person to do that?
If you’re willing to die for the cause, why not immolate the Israeli consul for example?
Because they would be labeled as a terrorist and promptly dismissed. Gandhi wasn’t perfect, but he knew how to get shit done. The US is the most destructive and lethal country in the world, just like Kamala said at the DNC.
Gandhi did non-violent protests.
He didn’t burn himself alive, nobody would remember him if he did
Revolutionaries without a revolution to join. It’s, ultimately, our failure to be get organized.
Man, dude burned himself alive and I bet most have already forgot the whole thing. Fucking hell.
OP’s article not only discusses Aaron Bushnell but also points out that this is in fact the third.
Edited correction. Thank you.