I love this format - I already have four people in mind for three different sections and I will send it to them and hopefully have them also sign up to you Substack. I think with all that’s happening in the world, this format works best for my attention span. 😬 thanks for sharing all this.
Oh yay! Maybe I’ll do something like this a little more often…I’ve been considering a mid-week link wrap up for paying subscribers also… lots of ideas! Glad you shared with your friends!
On the true crime stuff, I completely agree with you. This fascination over murder, rape, assault and violence that is based on real events... yikes. Look, I watch Marvel and Star Wars. I also love the show Only Murders in the Building, but that's also a parody of the whole enterprise. People who like true crime have told me "I like to learn how they (law enforcement) figure it out," but damn, that ignores a whole lot of the truth about American law enforcement and the entire criminal legal system's problem with violence against women and people of color (especially Indigenous and Black women). A lot of true crime seems to be consumed and delighted by horrific, gory violence against victims who are mostly women.
Agreed! There is a titillation in the storytelling that feels… unsettling. I thought the podcast Trojan Horse was very good though, and sometimes I wonder about the relationship between investigative journalism and true crime curiosity…
I have followed this closely and watched the full six hours of oral arguments from both sides. The SA side was very impressive in terms of the breadth of the arguments; the distillation of months of recorded evidence to the most telling and poignant examples; the moral authority they clearly had; the substantive nature of their arguments, and the authentic and rigorous presentations of the speakers themselves. The Israeli side was a shambles, the arguments very easy to refute and mainly referencing technicalities. It was the technicalities that concerned everyone, as we know the law often rests on these to throw cases out. The presiding judge was so calm and clear in reading out the decision, and it was a huge relief that the ICJ focused on substantive issues. The ruling I believe is an important step and announces to the other signatories to the Genocide Convention that they too could be considered complicit for not trying to prevent a plausible concern of genocide.
The SA foreign minister was particularly impressive in her comments after the announcement. Please listen to her views, as SA are clearly the country that had given most thought to all the implications of the case and decisions. I’m not a lawyer but an interested human rights advocate and it actually all makes a lot of sense if you have time to watch the whole thing (which most people don’t!) 🤓🇿🇦🇵🇸🕊️
I stumbled upon here randomly since I was researching the terms desire and pleasure - loved your thoughts!
Love this so much! What is the research you’re doing?
I love this format - I already have four people in mind for three different sections and I will send it to them and hopefully have them also sign up to you Substack. I think with all that’s happening in the world, this format works best for my attention span. 😬 thanks for sharing all this.
Oh yay! Maybe I’ll do something like this a little more often…I’ve been considering a mid-week link wrap up for paying subscribers also… lots of ideas! Glad you shared with your friends!
On the true crime stuff, I completely agree with you. This fascination over murder, rape, assault and violence that is based on real events... yikes. Look, I watch Marvel and Star Wars. I also love the show Only Murders in the Building, but that's also a parody of the whole enterprise. People who like true crime have told me "I like to learn how they (law enforcement) figure it out," but damn, that ignores a whole lot of the truth about American law enforcement and the entire criminal legal system's problem with violence against women and people of color (especially Indigenous and Black women). A lot of true crime seems to be consumed and delighted by horrific, gory violence against victims who are mostly women.
Agreed! There is a titillation in the storytelling that feels… unsettling. I thought the podcast Trojan Horse was very good though, and sometimes I wonder about the relationship between investigative journalism and true crime curiosity…
I have followed this closely and watched the full six hours of oral arguments from both sides. The SA side was very impressive in terms of the breadth of the arguments; the distillation of months of recorded evidence to the most telling and poignant examples; the moral authority they clearly had; the substantive nature of their arguments, and the authentic and rigorous presentations of the speakers themselves. The Israeli side was a shambles, the arguments very easy to refute and mainly referencing technicalities. It was the technicalities that concerned everyone, as we know the law often rests on these to throw cases out. The presiding judge was so calm and clear in reading out the decision, and it was a huge relief that the ICJ focused on substantive issues. The ruling I believe is an important step and announces to the other signatories to the Genocide Convention that they too could be considered complicit for not trying to prevent a plausible concern of genocide.
The SA foreign minister was particularly impressive in her comments after the announcement. Please listen to her views, as SA are clearly the country that had given most thought to all the implications of the case and decisions. I’m not a lawyer but an interested human rights advocate and it actually all makes a lot of sense if you have time to watch the whole thing (which most people don’t!) 🤓🇿🇦🇵🇸🕊️
Really appreciated this comment, thanks for the nudge to delve further!