Shaun King – The power of knowing the names of Palestinians in Gaza

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A woman describes a woman named Bisan who lost her cats for 60 days and killed them. She says she had no intention of killing them and had just lost them because of a post about wanting to keep three cats alive. She found almost a million people who knew her by name and asked them a survey, which showed almost a trillion people worldwide.

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			I saw a young woman named Bisan that
		
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			I have grown to just love and admire.
		
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			She said something that just devastated me.
		
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			She said for 60 days she had kept
		
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			her three cats alive.
		
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			And she had left her cats in her
		
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			home only on day 60 for her home
		
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			to be bombed and her cats to be
		
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			killed.
		
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			I've never cried over cats.
		
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			I don't even like cats.
		
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			But how hard must it have been to
		
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			keep three cats alive for 60 days in
		
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			the apocalypse?
		
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			And yet she had done it.
		
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			And I saw nearly a million people that
		
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			interacted with her post and grieved with her.
		
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			And said, Bisan, I'm sorry about your cats.
		
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			And I did a simple survey and asked
		
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			my followers, how many of you know a
		
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			Palestinian by name?
		
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			And almost 95% of my followers now
		
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			know someone in Gaza by name.