David Graeber + Your Authors @davidgraeber I'm an anthropologist, sometimes I occupy things & such. I see anarchism as something you do not an identity so don't call me the anarchist anthropologist

To make clear what's happening in N. Syria: men who believe women belong in the kitchen are killing, torturing, & blowing apart women who are trying to create a women's revolution in the Middle East. The US, and now even the UN are actively helping them do so. #riseupforrojava 1/

this is important. People don't understand what Rojava is. It's a project largely created by & largely maintained by women. An attempt to begin to undo patriarchy in the very lands where it originated in its most pernicious forms. It is being attacked IN THE NAME OF PATRIARCHY 2/

all of this is explicit. Erdogan did not just declare in advance he intends to commit war crimes - to be greeted with the support, passive or active, of the world community - he declared he was acting to put women who rose up against patriarchy back in their place 3/

he claims Rojava are "terrorists" because they support the philosophy of Abdullah Ocalan, but in fact, that philosophy largely consists of a commitment to prioritise women's liberation since patriarchy is the foundation for all other forms of injustice 4/

in other words, Erdogan & by extension now all NATO powers want us to accept that the women's revolution in Rojava is a form of terrorism not despite but BECAUSE of its commitment to women's emancipation & empowerment. (Not because of any acts of terror, as these don't exist.) 5/

(all the actual acts of terror, from the bombing of hospitals to the use of white phosphorus & napalm on children in an explicit attempt to terrorise the civilian population to flee & be ethnically cleansed, are being done by the Turkish/NATO side.) 6/

I want to emphasise this is explicit. It's not some conspiracy theory. Erdogan says "I want to ethnically cleanse this territory." Then he meets w the UN sec'y general who says "I'll help". Erdogan says "I want to put women back in their place." Merkel gives him weapons. 7/

sure the German gov't & US congress make superficial noises, they kind of have to, & the US army is furious because no one will want to ally w them, but they're still providing the air cover & weapons for the forces of patriarchy who're saying "let us kill these uppity women" 8/

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