I dislike Andrea Long Chu’s style of review very much but she pinpoints the stupidity and performance of many diasporic writers who get away with talking about their homeland, mother language, and ancestors like magical primitives because a white audience doesn’t know better
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it's a nazi salute or it isn't it: ultimately doesn't matter cuz we live in a world where "fascism" looks different than it did in 1933 cuz the world is different and capitalism is different now
american fascism in 2025 is business casual treatlers rating humans on gig apps
your 20’s are for learning the simple lesson that the days aren’t passing by faster and slipping away from you, you just need to start waking up before 2pm, and you relearn this every 3-6 months
one time at the onion when Kanye said some Nazi stuff I pitched the headline that was something like “Kanye Defends Fascist Statements As Natural Conclusion To Neoliberalism” and it sparked this big ass debate as to whether that downplayed antisemitism (either way the joke is
this reminds me of something i tweeted long ago but every diasporoid's worst nightmare really is outsiders learning about their culture directly from the source instead of coming to them as hallowed gatekeeper-intermediaries
If you're new, looking to get into Lynch after the news - in honor of Lynch I made a flowchart to help guide new viewers. No spoilers, and I tried to be as objective as I could.
I hope everyone can see these wonderful films!
David Foster Wallace: "I have intelligent friends, who don't like to read. They get - it's not just bored - there's an almost dread that comes up about having to be alone and having to be quiet.
It seems significant that we don't want things to be quiet ever anymore."
I think the whole Foucauldian / generally poststructuralist theories would create less insufferable readers if someone told them that "socially constructed" doesn't mean fake and contingent. It's still very much real