Indignities, Dehumanization & Cruelty

The story is told that when Mahatma Gandhi was asked what he thought of Western civilization, he responded that “It would be a good idea.”

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Columbia University student, Mahmoud Khalil, was abducted by men in the presence of his wife, who captured the abduction and her pleas for information on video:

Notes and Sources

Representative Eric Cantor (VA-R) on September 14, 2001. From Netflix, Turning Point: 9/11 and the War on Terror, Episode 2, “A Place of Danger.” Again, not to pick on Mr. Cantor—many similar statements were made by members of both parties.

Marra, Healing America’s Narratives, (From the Heart Press, 2022), 237.

https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/documents/beyond-vietnam; recording:

Vine Deloria, Jr., Custer Died for Your Sins, (U of Oklahoma P, 1988/1969), 255-56.

Doug Anderson, from “Same Old,” Horse Medicine (Barrow Street Press, 2015) 9.

Adam Serwer, “The Cruelty Is the Point,” Atlantic, October 3, 2018, https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/the-cruelty-is-the-point/572104/?gift=9RaJP4gXCLSBS5Gbmf4B1eKdBXAfsXM_MdBAswfVDkU&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

Joyce Vance’s May 5, 2025 writing on Ed Martin makes the case:

The Outrage That Is Ed Martin

For perspectives on Project 2025, consider the following:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/04/project-2025-top-goal/682142/

https://www.project2025.observer/

https://www.aclu.org/project-2025-explained

Message from Tufts University: https://as.tufts.edu/epcshd/news-events/news/rumeysa-ozturk-our-student-teacher-colleague-and-friend

Video of the abduction: https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000010075008/tufts-student-ice-arrest.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/us/abrego-garcia-mistakenly-deported.html