one of the rhetorical moves to be careful of is all the outlets saying that we dropped the bomb "on isis"

It's not that they're wrong about who the bomb struck, it's that they're redefining "isis" to mean "all those people in that place."

a big part of violent orientalism is lumping vastly different people up into the same groups and races and beliefs. that's the nature of islamophobia.

we pretend they aren't human and we're more okay with it