The Empathy Gap

The fascinating Teju Cole talks to Mother Jones about drones, Twitter activism, and identity:

TC: Killing a bunch of people in Sudan and Yemen and Pakistan, it’s like, “Who cares — we don’t know them.” But the current discussion is framed as “When can the President kill an American citizen?” Now in my mind, killing a non-American citizen without due process is just as criminal as killing an American citizen without due process — but whatever gets us to the table to discuss this thing, we’re going to take it.

The drone tweets are almost impossible to read, but that…would be the idea.