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The most implausible thing in The Blues Brothers is the Chicago cop cursing out the Nazis.

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It is possible to criticize a persons politics without defending morality police in a religious theocracy.

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There is massive racism against Iranians and Middle Eastern people in general. This led the US/Israel to critically underestimate the resilience and seriousness of Iranian institutions.

It's also true however that people attempting to insulate the Islamic Republic from criticism for its abuses against women, Bahai, and so forth use anti-Orientalist/"decolonial" discourses as a convenient rhetorical device.

The world is complicated.

In terms of Marjane Satrapi, I cannot speak to her work because I haven't read it. The idea however that cartoons of her getting harassed by morality police women when she was 12 or whatever are "racist" is ludicrous.

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If people want to dunk on Satrapi’s politics, go for it. She was wrong on Palestine and fell into Islamophobic politics.

But here’s the thing: you can criticize her without pretending that the IRI is some kind of wonderful place.

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@BobsPraxis Internet man discovers that someone is right about some things and wrong about others. Is shocked.

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Complete coward.

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@andfogle I vastly underestimated the brain rot with certain segments of the pro-Palestine crowd.

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@babyblueice22 @BrettErickson28 @glcarlstrom @pewresearch If you were Palestinian you would hate Israel, too.

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@babyblueice22 @BrettErickson28 @glcarlstrom @pewresearch Because they aren’t Jordanian. They aren’t from there. The Israeli government knows this:

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@babyblueice22 @BrettErickson28 @glcarlstrom @pewresearch Judea and ancient Palestine were two different things.

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@babyblueice22 @BrettErickson28 @glcarlstrom @pewresearch You are dumb.

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@babyblueice22 @BrettErickson28 @glcarlstrom @pewresearch This is objectively false. Israel has no intention of letting Palestinians become citizens because they want a Jewish majority state.

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@babyblueice22 @BrettErickson28 @glcarlstrom @pewresearch Herodotus predates the Roman’s and he mentions Palestine.

Palestine was settled long before Roman’s and Jews. Pelest was the name the Egyptians gave them.

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@babyblueice22 @BrettErickson28 @glcarlstrom @pewresearch What happens when a Jewish person in Israel marries a Muslim?

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@babyblueice22 @BrettErickson28 @glcarlstrom @pewresearch They have no rights because Israel doesn’t want to give them any.

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@babyblueice22 @BrettErickson28 @glcarlstrom @pewresearch Palestine is not a part of Jordan. The British attached it to Jordan during their mandate, hence the confusion.

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@babyblueice22 @BrettErickson28 @glcarlstrom @pewresearch So the West Bank and Gaza are both parts of Israel? I assume all the Arabs living there are citizens, yes?

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@babyblueice22 @BrettErickson28 @glcarlstrom @pewresearch A small part of Palestine.

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@babyblueice22 @BrettErickson28 @glcarlstrom @pewresearch It appeared in Egypt as “Peleset” around 1200 BCE