Muslim activist Maria Akbar says Sadiq Khan desperately wants to be accepted by the majority community, and that's why he's willing to jettison Islamic principles.
The veil women here are presented as ghost like figures, denied genuine interiority. They appear primarily through the protagonist's gaz. We are invited into Marjane's fears, desires, frustrations, and political development, but the veil women are seldom granted a comparable inner life. Their political commitments appear self-evident, irrational, or socially imposed than historically produced. they can come across as figures existing outside history. The secular, cosmopolitan protagonist possesses interiority; the veil woman has no inner life.
Man. Reading up on the aid statistics since 2014.
If Ukraine had received the same level of foreign aid as Israel since 2014, we could March to fucking Moscow.
Just so we're clear on how absolutely stupid the British Government is.
When a petition is signed with over 2 million people saying No to Digital ID, it gets ignored.
When 9000 people answer an online, unadvertised survey, suddenly it's "overwhelming support".
The yap to ship ratio of Anduril is impressive. Their gear has been in Ukraine since the start of the war, yet you never hear about its success. If you look at what Russians complain about it is mostly Ukrainian homegrown tech or relatively obscure Western stuff like Hornets
Campists leftists having discovered there's no international socialist project in the 21st century have instead decided to go after liberalism, even if that means supporting some of the worst regimes active today.
notice how leftists hate both malala yousafzai and marjane satrapi. it's almost like they hate brown women who stand up for women's rights because their loyalty lies with reactionary men as long as they're seen as anti-west
It's amazing to study history and they're like "this guy was a military genius, crushed everybody in his path"
"what did he do?"
"he gave his troops slightly longer spears"
I'm as pro-abortion as they come, but getting an abortion specifically because you'd end up with a child with down syndrome is some eugenicist nonsense
they have the exact same face of the women who called me a whore in the middle of the street because i was wearing shorts as a 13 yo, or the teens in the bus who told me id go to hell because my hair wasn't covered
i'd draw them uglier <3
There’s a dark irony to Marjane Satrapi being from a family of leftists and being someone who fled Iran’s theocratic regime to live free, only to be attacked online by leftists in the last few years (and now again with her death) as a mouthpiece of western propaganda vs Iran
Got made redundant in February but I still know the code to access my old work canteen from the street so I go in twice a week and get a free bacon roll and coffee on the way to my new job.