A Palestinian father’s calm walk with his children momentarily broke a checkpoint taboo.

Evidence

The father got fed up. He opened the door and left the car with his two daughters, holding on to one and walking with the other. He stepped slowly but proudly up to the soldiers, showing them that he wasn’t going to do anything and was holding only his children. They stared at him hard but let him walk through the area and beyond, and a taboo was for a moment broken. — Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being…, 555

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the theme of small acts of decorum toward authorities overriding practical logic; recall the reader’s stated interest in claims about decorum toward corpses and symbolic gestures.