yes, her tone of dismissal & haughty superiority strike a sour note. rather than disagreeing with interpretations of Homer in a collegial manner, this person, who has benefited enormously from Nolan's film, speaks in the crude language of MAGA folks attacking someone with ideas that differ from hers.
within the world of translators this seems all the more surprising since all translations are, presumably, subjective & not equivalent to the original text.
one would expect a translator, of all people, beholden to a text, in service to a text, to be just a wee bit more thoughtful & respectful of others who are acting in good faith just as (she would claim) she is.
@KonstantinNotz Natürlich habt ihr etwas gegen jemanden, der sein Leben lang Integrität bewiesen hat und mit seinem Denken und Tun für etwas eingestanden ist - sogar bis in den Tod.
@ContraPoints@BIockHed@c0mbien If only Castro and Guevara had thought of that, they could have forgone going through the ordeal of starting a revolution to oust Batista.
BREAKING: Pro-Palestinian activists have occupied a facility of German arms giant @RheinmetallAG in Berlin, one of Israel’s key weapons suppliers during the genocide in Palestine.
They demand an immediate halt to arms exports to Israel and an end to Germany’s complicity.
We head to Cuba later this week as part of an international solidarity group to bring critical medical aid for the Cuban people. 🇨🇺 🇮🇪
To everyone who has assisted us gathering it, GRMA, we will travel with over 200kg of critical medicines.
As the Taoiseach heads to Washington to shake the hand of a war monger, we'll be in Cuba where the island is being strangled and starved by the man who'll be handed shamrock.
Sending my love and unconditional support to my friend @susanabulhawa, whom Mamdani decided to vilify yesterday.
Susan is an uncompromising Palestinian writer whose words spark fear in the minds of Zionists and their collaborators.
She went into Gaza not once but twice in 2024, in the middle of the fucking genocide, to bring supplies in and run writing workshops to teach a cohort of Palestinians how to tell their stories of survival.
This photo was taken just a few days before one of those trips when she had me show her how to use a camera so she could document her journey.
When I asked how she felt about going, she replied, "I'm willing to die for my land, for my people."
As politicians like Mamdani continue to capitulate to the right and erode the foundations on which they launched their careers, they abandon any hope of having an ounce of Susan's conviction.
Go pick up Susan's anthology, "Every Moment Is a Life," all proceeds benefit the Palestinian writers she worked with, and her new children's book, "Palestine On the Moon."
“At the end of the day, the best measure of the humanity of any society is the life and happiness of its children. We live in a rich society with poor children, and that should be intolerable.”
— Mike Davis, City of Quartz (2006 preface)
Unter https://t.co/xuHaLI1KqC solidarisieren sich verschiedene Jugendgruppen mit allen von der Repression des dt. Staates betroffenen Schulstreikenden und organisieren konkrete Hilfe wie Spendensammlungen für Prozesskosten.
The kids are alright!