i am begging some of y’all to learn the difference between someone being critical of a state’s government/corporations and being phobic towards that state’s people
people aren’t being sinophobic for talking about china’s appalling human rights record, no one is being russophobic for acknowledging the holodomor, it’s not islamophobic to call out islamic colonization, you aren’t being racist for criticizing japan’s imperialist past, etc etc etc
please use your thinking brain for what it’s there to do: think critically
it’s possible (and easy) to criticize a nation/region’s leadership without being weird about the people who live there, and if it’s not easy for you then you have some work to do
Trump is appointing three washed-up actors as “ambassador to Hollywood” in order to bring back the “Golden Age of Hollywood”. Which has historical precedent: there was an ambassador to Hollywood in the Golden Age, too. His name was Georg Gyssling and he was sent by Hitler to monitor the activities of Hollywood studios. To make sure their films didn’t say anything anti-Nazi, resulting in many attempts at anti-fascist films being shut down by the Hays Code. Just a fun historical Hollywood fact there
An c.1000-1200 CE example of Egyptian cotton knitted socks.
I made a chart for it!
I realised while making it that the pattern on the sock isn’t always symmetrical or identical, so I had to be a little creative. But I managed to get it pretty close, I think!
“tiktok has massive problems that even if you don’t agree with a complete ban have to be addressed for all social media platforms” and “the Chinese government is doing pretty awful things” and “there is a lot of sinophobic fearmongering and double standards in the conversation about tiktok” and “people should exercise basic caution signing up to foreign or domestic social media” and “most Chinese citizens like US citizens are just people living their life and cultural exchange between them can be beneficial for both sides” and “some people being on the same social media site isn’t going to solve everything ” and “I want to study the linguistics happening there under a microscope” are opinions that can coexist
TWIGGY & WOODY ALLEN My Generation (2017) dir. David Batty
“His first question was: ‘Who’s your favourite philosopher?’ My heart sank. I wanted to run off and burst into tears. I didn’t know any philosophers. And he probably knew I didn’t. When I said so, he replied, ‘Oh come on, everyone has a favourite philosopher.’ It was such a cruel thing to do to a young girl.”
“I was desperate and trying not to cry but I turned the tables on him and asked him to come up with some names – but he couldn’t think of any either! Then he said to me, ‘I suppose you’ve read Dickens,’ thinking I hadn’t. So I said, ‘Yeah, I read him at school.’ In the end he said, ‘Oh, I can’t interview her,’ and left the stage."
amhrancas 