superluminal

Despite my support for iran against the US empire, I never believe in demeaning people like satrapi who have a more complex relationship with iran and was victimized in childhood by religious dogma. But at the end of the day her worldview was "theres fanatics and everybody else" without ever really questioning who the fanatics are, why Europe and America with false civil liberties would be concerned with the civil liberties of the mena region. Its so easy to fall to the liberal to neo to right wing pipeline when u never confront your worldview

Here she just regurgitates zionist propaganda that iran is the head of all these resistance groups

She said about leftist politician Melenchon saying his relationship to "hamas is quiet" and thinks hes an antisemite which is just lines repeated by right wing zionist media

art by Tima Lotah Link (Chumash) for the Native Voices 16th Annual Short Play Festival

no mention of what the land reforms even were. not even a short summary outside of the linked article, just fearmongering about "executions and political purges", as if it was just a mass slaughter done because ho chi minh was an evil dictator who loved killing poor innocent landlords

alright, so what about the section about his legacy? the people of vietnam seem to love him a lot, so let's see what wikipedia has to say on that:

she wasn't amused at all unfortunately.. she is a proud creature and not overfond of mockery