“Odin and I drowned entire civilizations in blood and tears. Where do you think all this gold comes from?”
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Seymore Hersh on the White Helmets:
RT, BYO grain of salt.
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Mostly good, but…
Sheesh.
Hashtag Resistance, sure. Actual resistance, no.
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Brunch.
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“Give more power to Jeff Sessions’ DOJ”.
Yeah, that’s gonna work.
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Okay, back on Black Panther, which I still haven’t seen.
Y’all have plenty of good arguments as to why Killmonger was a bad guy. Fine with that.
But the other side of the critique is: why was the CIA guy there, and why was he portrayed as a hero? Y’all understand why that might seriously clash with the normal Black Nationalist perspective?
What the FBI is to the domestic Civil Rights movement, the CIA is to global south decolonisation struggles. Except on a much larger scale, and with much more violence.
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He’s not portrayed as a hero so much as the bumbling comic relief, who gets a moment of heroism near the end.
That said: it’s really frustrating to try to have an in-depth discussion of a movie with someone who hasn’t seen it.
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If you haven’t seen Black Panther, why does it matter to you? It was honest in some ways, the CIA guy was in bed with Klaue to buy the vibranium. It was dishonest in that the CIA’s institutional reaction when presented with super-goodies (to destabilize and pillage) was overridden when Killmonger got there first.
I enjoyed other aspects of the film. As I’ve said elsewhere, Thor: Ragnorok is a better statement on late stage colonialism.
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