Thomas_More
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Powerful short death row film.
(To a Japanese friend):
“Woke” is the same as saying all Japanese literature and art should be destroyed, because it was made at the expense of serf-labour.
“WOKE.”
(A letter to a friend):
Have you heard of the “Woke” movement?
It is taking over schools and universities.
It is intolerant of anyone against it.
It has many aspects. One is the prohibition of words such as “Man” and “Woman”, “male” and “female.”
In Scotland, a boy was suspended from college for saying there are only two sexes.Another aspect is the erasing of history, especially colonial history. There are calls for books to be banned and destroyed. Classic films too.
“Woke” people have attacked paintings and statues. Often, they are attacking the wrong things. They want classic books destroyed if they deem anything in them to be racist, imperialist, or sexist.
Seeing as modern capitalist European and American society was rooted in colonialism and racism, this means the destruction of most classic books and films, Tintin included.
I am anti-racist, but I am not “Woke.”
I think “Woke” are fascists. They don’t trust people to make up their own minds about what we look at, hear or read; so they say we have to be “protected” by them destroying things we “shouldn’t” be reading, listening to or looking at.Tintin in the Congo was never offered to children in English anyway. It was only recently translated into English on the proviso that it be kept apart from the Tintin canon in English as a curiosity for adults.
When I think back on Tintin in America, of course, the native Americans in it are cartoons, because everyone in it is a cartoon. Tintin saves them by exposing the machinations of a white scammer who attempts to cheat them of their land.
Herge’s colonialism is the paternalistic kind. His Tintin protects the natives against unscrupulous whites. But paternalism is still racist, of course.
Tintin in America also exposes the production line Fordism of American industry and its desensitizing removal of the person from the process of production.
This is not a thread on vegetarianism or on food at all. It’s about the holocaust being perpetrated on wildlife by the capitalist system.
Chelmsford begins with “my modest contribution to the holocaust …”
Get your own threads on anti-vegetarianism and on recipes if that’s what you want. This is a thread on a very serious subject and your Christmas dinner ideas have nothing to do with it, and diminish it.
And I remember you before, diminishing my descriptions of horrendous animal suffering with some remark like, “Aw, the fluffy wuffie bunnies” etc. That was a diminishing remark aimed at hurting, and it’s no wonder I assume these ones are too … especially as they don’t belong here.
I’ve had years, both from socialists, anarchists and others, of remarks aimed at hurting the feelings of people of sensibility beyond their own species. I’ve had enough of it.Other animals show respect and follow etiquette all the time in their own societies (and have demonstrated it across species too, including toward us).
I believe you see everything not pertinent to your own species as “other”, as you do the universe. As if you are separate from it.
Sagan was a real materialist who knew that air (spiritus) is matter too. Space is not nothingness. Nothing does not exist. Only matter exists, and you are of it. You are not something else.
“Wisconsin’s wolves are being hunted down and slaughtered, with tactics including dynamiting wolf pups in their own dens. Meanwhile, Montana and Idaho have passed laws legalizing brutal “hunting” methods like snares and helicopter chases. Last year, Idaho called for the killing of 90% of its wolf population — only 150 wolves would remain.”
F.O.E.
