"Who planted terrorism in our area? Some came and took our land, forced us to leave, forced us to live in camps. I think this is terrorism. Using means to resist this terrorism and stop its effects - this is called struggle."
- Leila Khaled
No digo que todo el arte tenga que ser moralmente correcto pero sí está raro que todos los personajes femeninos de Sam Levinson quieran ser proxenetas o trabajadoras sexuales o una combinación de ambas.
When I came back to Britain in 2018 I got a haircut that was doing the rounds and thought nothing of it. There was a TV show on called Peaky Blinders but I hadn't seen a single episode however I did also work as a bouncer on a nightclub door in Aberdeen where the attire of the program was also mimicked.
I don't have the time to watch an 8 series 10 episodes a time program but the reason I never watched an episode was because when I asked the first person I asked what it was about and he said it was about a gangster in Birmingham during the War, I immediately switched off.
If he's not fighting in the War I thought, I'm not interested in anything about him. Fucking coward.
@Netflix have just made a movie on the subject and against my better instincts and with nothing else to do, knowing that it's less than 2 hours of my life, I pressed play.
I found out that yes indeed the protagonist was a gangster in Britain during WW2, however he had served with distinction in WW1 and came back a changed man. That made ALL the difference, I'm invested in the character now.
A lot of people are under the mistaken impression that progress means advances in tech. Real progress is kids who are literate, free meals for public school students, a culture in which human art & poetry are celebrated. We're regressing rapidly & the only way forward is to read.
The Sudanese woman in the pink hijab said:
“I say this to the Muslim leaders: Stay in your castles, wear our hijabs, and hand over your weapons. We deserve them more than you. You are cowards, sitting on the thrones built from the bones of the children of Gaza”
Bourdain told you exactly what his problem was. He described depression as something he was outrunning his entire life because he saw so many of his family members succumb to it. One day I’ll also be too old and tired to run. Depressed people are telling you plainly what’s wrong.
girls will survive abuse, heartbreak, grief, and unspeakable tragedies and still move through the world with kindness and compassion, but one minor inconvenience in a man's childhood and he spends the rest of his life terrorizing and poisoning everyone around him
Reminder that the civil rights movement was not just random people who had enough one day. They were carefully and militantly trained political activists who deployed strategic forces to end Jim Crow segregation. Never forget them.