Hanif Abdurraqib on Palestine, Islamophobia & Manufacturing Consent

We will talk with award winning, best-selling poet, essayist, and cultural critic Hanif Abdurraqib about recent events in Palestine, the media response, the invocations of 9/11, insults to our intelligence, and the power of art to teach history.
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[@danielleb1743]

“History doesn’t remember the retractions,” ooomph. That one hit.

[@hectic-glow-clouds8723]

Thank you for this wonderful interview, and for the spotlight on Palestine Action earlier this week. And thank you Hanif, for sharing beautiful poetry and music from Palestinians. The discussion of lack of precision in language reminded me of a quote from Toni Morrison: "The function, the very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again, your reason for being. Somebody says you have no language and you spend twenty years proving that you do. Somebody says your head isn’t shaped properly so you have scientists working on the fact that it is. Somebody says you have no art, so you dredge that up. Somebody says you have no kingdoms, so you dredge that up. None of this is necessary. There will always be one more thing.”

[@towTruck42]

Tuned in because the only information I had came from the "manufactured consent", and it wasn't adding up for me. Thanks for the perspectives. You've made an impression.

[@caseyreit2095]

Loved listening to this conversation, thank you both!

[@MAKCapitalism]

Great to hear! Thank you!

[@melissalai8173]

thank you both for this talk! it’s really validating to hear that we share similar views, especially as I’ve only been aware of Palestinian resistance for a couple years and have still seen such a drastic shift in where popular opinion lies in this matter!

[@francesmadeson6147]

Will definitely listen to the other Hanif episodes on Patreon.

[@emmamcnally4159]

thank you

[@Alexander-us5js]

great, great content!

[@MAKCapitalism]

thank you!

[@towTruck42]

25:00 consent manufacturing..... for the imagination of empire

[@haw460]

did hanif say where he shared the pdf of the poetry collection enemy of the sun? ive been trying to get a hold of it for ages now

[@MAKCapitalism]

I don't think he said he shared it yet, I think he said he had one and he's trying to figure out a way to share it with folks. I would just follow him on Twitter & IG and see if he makes it available in some format there at some point. Hopefully folks can get it republished somehow amid all of this.

[@jedmyth]

Anyone have the link to that Intifada album?

[@MAKCapitalism]

I believe it was this one. Sorry not 100% positive, if you have the time stamp where he talked about it I can confirm majazzproject.bandcamp.com/album/the-intifada-1987-2

[@towTruck42]

14:14 Interesting contrast between your earlier statement about trying to think more globally and this statement about communal education and the implications about a common political sense. How could individuals in the USA have a common political sense about our place in the world order, for better or worse, when there is so much doubt and confusion over even basic reality and the divisions within our internal political ideology toe the line of hostility?

[@MAKCapitalism]

not sure, I'm totally understanding the question. But as I read it, what you're touching on is the fundamental reason for organizations, and for the type of collective study organizations can do, and then collective actions that they can take. Without that, then it is true, we can only act as individuals, and in today's day and age that is increasingly through the cultivation social media performances essentially.

[@towTruck42]

Even the current Republican party fiasco where they cannot pick a speaker of the house....... And meanwhile we are involved in what two? Three wars? If I were permitted an accusation, I would use it to point at the conservatives and the way that no agreement on a budget and no ability to operate Congress is actually consistent with the neoliberal desire to diminish and debilitate government. Non-working government is actually fulfilling their desires.

[@towTruck42]

​@@MAKCapitalismyeah I guess I'm just pondering. In fact I would say what you're doing here has value just because it put a conversation on the spectrum instead of way off somewhere in outer space. I don't know if people back in the seventies and eighties foresaw the level of atomization that the policies they enacted would produce. Perhaps the internet has really exacerbated things in the direction of destructive individualism.