Saturday, March 10, 2012
Separation anxiety
A local public radio program discusses movies. The regular panelists are just what you'd expect: elite-bubble academics, confirmed leftists.
Today they had to confront their prejudices in an unusual way. They were discussing the Persian movie 'Separation', which has gone international. Everything about the movie was shocking to them: the Western attitudes of Persians, the educated and lively women, the contrast between sophisticated upper-class and strict lower-class. To their credit, they were trying to absorb the reality instead of blindly rejecting it.
These progressives had exactly the same biases about Persia as any Repooflican. You can see the same shared idiocy among the Israel-enslaved media on both "sides": Fox, CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, NRO, NPR, all agree that "Iran" is an insane backward pile of 5th-century primitives. All agree that "Iran" is an "existential threat" to the world, and must be EXTERMINATED EXTERMINATED EXTERMINATED!
Fucking stupid bigoted Yankee shitheads.
Okies understand the situation better because we've known Persians for a long time. Persians have been part of Oklahoma since the '60s, mainly because of oil connections. Nothing in that movie would surprise an Okie. ¶ 4:08 PM
Today they had to confront their prejudices in an unusual way. They were discussing the Persian movie 'Separation', which has gone international. Everything about the movie was shocking to them: the Western attitudes of Persians, the educated and lively women, the contrast between sophisticated upper-class and strict lower-class. To their credit, they were trying to absorb the reality instead of blindly rejecting it.
These progressives had exactly the same biases about Persia as any Repooflican. You can see the same shared idiocy among the Israel-enslaved media on both "sides": Fox, CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, NRO, NPR, all agree that "Iran" is an insane backward pile of 5th-century primitives. All agree that "Iran" is an "existential threat" to the world, and must be EXTERMINATED EXTERMINATED EXTERMINATED!
Fucking stupid bigoted Yankee shitheads.
Okies understand the situation better because we've known Persians for a long time. Persians have been part of Oklahoma since the '60s, mainly because of oil connections. Nothing in that movie would surprise an Okie. ¶ 4:08 PM
