Something WORSE THAN GENOCIDE with Dirk Moses

In this video, I sit down with scholar and author A. Dirk Moses to unpack how the merging of the Holocaust’s specific history with the generic concept of genocide—and its elevation to the “crime of crimes”—has shaped our collective imagination in ways that blind us to potentially far worse horrors. Moses explains how the pursuit of permanent security by states and groups enacts devastating violence against civilians under the guise of prevention and control. Stick around for the outro, where I use an X-Men analogy to explore the moral dilemmas of invulnerability, trauma, civilizational Darwinism, and the concomitant nightmares of absolute safety. DILEMMA EPISODE WITH UYGHUR ACTIVIST - History Rhymes - Uyghur Genocide - Rahima Mahmut - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s02e04-history-rhymes-uyghur-genocide-rahima-mahmut/id1470490447?i=1000487315464 Jewish Currents Journal - https://jewishcurrents.org/ Dirk Moses Books, Podcasts, and Public Works - https://www.dirkmoses.com/ Journal of Genocide Research - https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/cjgr20 Just Security - https://www.justsecurity.org/ From the Periphery "Zionism from the Standpoint of one of it's victims" - https://youtu.be/bZWvvXVR8po?si=SAYcijQpAavGFZxb X-Men Vs Magneto! Issue 150 (1981) Comics Bazaar - https://youtu.be/TooOu8QondM?si=X_ctDOV4kXX_KBHk 00:00:00 Introduction 00:02:05 Intro: A Story From A Genocide Studies Department at My Alma Matter 00:12:50 Intro: Language as Obstacle and Path to Action 00:15:28 Dirk Moses’s Path To These Questions 00:23:13 Dirk Encounters The Intellectual Problems with “Genocide” 00:28:02 The Emotional Confusion of “Genocide” and “Holocaust” 00:32:27 “Genocide”, Aerial Bombing, and Weaponizing Holocaust Memory 00:41:16 The ICJ, The Rome Statute, UN Convention and the “Crime of Crimes” 00:51:22 Exploiting the Genocide Mixed Intention Loophole and Rigging the Law 00:57:35 The Logic of Permanent Security and Artificial Legal Constructs 01:05:41 “We Had To Do This for Security” and Preemptive Killings 01:09:30 The Legal Recognition of “Genocide” 01:14:29 The Fusion of “The Holocaust” and “Genocide” and Zionist Ambitions 01:21:26 Academia’s Paralysis, Firings, and Confusions 01:30:25 The Aesthetics of Killing and Future Surveillance 01:33:48 Teetering International Legal Order: Global North or South? 01:43:43 Why the Focus on Israel’s Crimes? 01:47:55 Outro: Dystopia and Absolute Safety 01:50:50 Outro: Collateral Damage Maximization Policy 01:58:35 Outro: X-Men’s Magneto and Zionism's Deadly Darkness 02:11:12 Outro: Why The Whole World Is Watching