Al igual que los hippies estadounidenses buscaban en el misticismo asiático una razón de su ser, pasa lo mismo con la gente de izquierdas que siente atracción por las sociedades no-occidentales, incluso cuando estas perpetúan también desigualdades y opresiones
your uncle could be assassinated by your government and some american communist will still accuse you of orientalism and selling out your own people. comforting
Marjane Satrapi made a career out of proliferating orientalist western caricatures of her own people. While Satrapi cashed in on racist campaigns thinly veiled by anti-patriarchal rhetoric calling for 'regime change' in Iran, she never once used her platform to speak out against the ongoing existential threats presented by Western powers against Palestinian, Lebanese, Iranian and ALL other Muslim women in West Asia. It's a fitting end for someone who remained blithely silent through three years of genocide in the region that raised her to literally die of grief over the loss of one gangly Swedish white guy.
movies my dad likes: take the key to the rendezvous point. or the tesseract will be compromised
movies my mom likes: and that was when i saw him. the wealthy molester