{"id":19720,"date":"2022-09-09T15:45:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-09T20:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/?p=19720"},"modified":"2022-09-16T15:49:01","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T20:49:01","slug":"whens-the-right-time-to-talk-about-colonial-atrocities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/2022\/09\/09\/whens-the-right-time-to-talk-about-colonial-atrocities\/","title":{"rendered":"when&#8217;s the right time to talk about colonial atrocities?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>this whole thing about \u2018now is not the right time.\u2019 because someone got attacked or killed or died at 96. i don\u2019t get it. it\u2019s never crass or insensitive to hold people with power (whether symbolic of literary) accountable for their actions and words &#8211; especially if they use their status to support violence against thousands (sometimes millions). why is mass violence less shocking than dancing on the graves of monarchs? it doesn\u2019t compute. here is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@aotearoaliberationleague\/video\/7141258611325521154\">video from the aotearoa liberation league<\/a> (\u201can empowered and well-informed population of kaitiaki committed to the protection of our most vulnerable individuals and their sources of life\u201d). they have more patience than i do.<br \/><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>this whole thing about \u2018now is not the right time.\u2019 because someone got attacked or killed or died at 96. i don\u2019t get it. it\u2019s never crass or insensitive to hold people with power (whether symbolic of literary) accountable for their actions and words &#8211; especially if they use their status to support violence against &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/2022\/09\/09\/whens-the-right-time-to-talk-about-colonial-atrocities\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">when&#8217;s the right time to talk about colonial atrocities?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19720"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19720"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19722,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19720\/revisions\/19722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}