Real question for the “now is not the appropriate time to talk about the negative impact of colonialism” crowd:
When is the appropriate time to talk about the negative impact of colonialism?
So maddening to have watched white nationalism spread from Stormfront to 4chan to YouTube to Steve Bannon to Tucker Carlson to the manifestos of multiple mass murderers—and not taken seriously because “they’re not wearing white robes.” But a better camouflaged KKK is all it is
German philosopher Walter Benjamin, whose work went largely unrecognized in his own time, who took his own life with an overdose of morphine after learning (perhaps erroneously) that the Spanish authorities were planning to deport him to France and repatriate him to Nazi hands.
Los Angeles has lost many video stores over the years, most recently Eddie Brandt’s Saturday Matinee in NoHo. But they’re not all gone!
Here are some of the video stores still open in the LA area (thread)
#SaveTheVideoStore