Here’s something new; a Sarandon thread:
Interesting Xinjiang thread:
Still unclear what’s actually happening; the Chinese line is that the heightened security is a response to Islamist terrorism spilling over the border.
Radio Free Asia et al. are attempting to spin that into a “China oppressing Uighurs” story, but the extent to which that is true is unclear.
Thread:
Fleeing starvation because the army burnt the crops, fleeing starvation because the corporations collapsed the economy: what’s the difference?
https://twitter.com/mashabani/status/1011172476657848321?s=21
Dunno what’s going on, but whatever it is will be sure to be of interest to Pompeo and Haspel.
Thread:
Um.
Maybe I’m reading too much into this, but I saw Killmonger’s version of Wakanda as an allegory to imperialist America.
“We have superior morals, we have the better technology, let’s give guns to the people we like to fight against the people we don’t like!”
Not to mention that the goal is explicitly to set up a worldwide totalitarian regime based in Wakanda and led by Killmonger.
I’m curious to know whether Mr. Lee thinks that slaughtering all non-Black leadership (not just white folks… remember, one of those shipments was going to Hong Kong) would really create a better world.
My guess is that it would just create an inversion of the current one. Black folks would be in charge, resentful of the white folks under them (the difference being that they would have good reason), and white folks would be, yes, getting a nice taste of their own medicine, but gradually building up anger and tension towards the next overthrow, using Killmonger as an example of “how brutal black people are,” and “how white folks are kind and nice and superior.”
As for “the freest black people to ever walk the earth slaughtering each other to protect whites”…
There were violent protests in 250 US colleges against the Vietnam war. If I were to describe that as “the freest white people to ever walk the earth slaughtering each other to protect Asians…”
- Why would that be different, and
- Why would that be more immoral than not acting to stop the imperialist war?
I haven’t actually seen the film, BTW. 
From what I hear, there’d be plenty of room to critique Killmonger’s Wakanda for a Black Nationalist inversion of imperialism.