Bilal Barakat 🍉

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Bilal Barakat 🍉
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Mathematician/computer scientist/statistician turned social scientist with a focus on international educational development and demography. Critical realist epistemology: facts are constructed, but not out of nothing. Stale-ish (pulling off the grey melange, and in better cardio shape than at 20) pale-ish (Euro-Arab, “gelernter Österreicher”) male | late-dx ND Interested in almost everything. Serial monotropist (not always in a good way). I do not suffer fools. This is not a challenge.
I gave up trying to "excerpt" this excellent piece that makes short thrift of whataboutism with ruthless efficiency. «Why do protesters flood the streets for Gaza but not for Sudan? A question that does not illuminate injustice, but disciplines how solidarity is allowed to appear. What is framed as “moral inconsistency” reveals far more about those posing the question than about the movements it targets. The comparison rests on a gaze shaped by Europe’s colonial histories and racial hierarchies; a gaze that fragments struggles, isolates suffering, and demands that solidarity be rendered legible, proportional, and politically harmless … From within this logic, empathy appears as a scarce resource to be evenly distributed, as if protest were an accounting exercise rather than a political practice.» https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2026/01/12/gaza-sudan-moral-consistency-colonial-alibi #Gaza #Palestine #Sudan