Mohammed El-Kurd posted a great tweet about this:

https://twitter.com/m7mdkurd/status/1762167360981438760?s=03

"If you are a soldier sacrificing yourself to protect US interest, you are a rational, noble hero. But if you sacrifice yourself to protest the genocide your country is funding, you are mentally ill.

If you are a Arab man auto-cremating to protest your government, you are romanticized in American newspapers. If you are an American doing the same, your news is buried or obfuscated.

There are no truths in the US. Only narratives that serve the ruling class."


And for those who may read this and are un-aware, Mohamed Bouazizi (who was referenced and ignored earlier in this thread) self-immolated in 2011 and accelerated the Arab Spring. Several others did the same afterwards. The New York Times called them "heroic martyrs of a new North African and Middle Eastern revolution." The (British) Times and Israeli publication The Jerusalem Post both named Bouazizi Person of the Year. And he was posthumously awared the Sakharov Prize. The difference between Bouazizi and Bushnell? See the tweet above.