Yes, Rafael, you’re right.
More people need to call him by his given name. I don’t see nearly enough of this
Why did he change his name? Rafael is cooler than >Ted<
Ted sounds alwhite
Way to erase yourself
can’t erase an identity you never had
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don’t know and agreed
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What a weird ship to go down with. Even of the people who would otherwise like him he’s putting a wedge for bible thumping F150 drivers. It’s like investing in the dot com bubble after it goes down 20% for the first time
Ted Cruz is such a liberal he’s doing the TACO meme lol
doing it to egg him on
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ALLAHU AKBAR!
AL MAWT LI 2AMRIKA!
AL MAWT LI 2ISRA2IL!
AL LA3NA 3ALA L YAHUD![1]
AN NASR LIL 2ISLAM!
According to a spokesperson for Ansarallah, this line should be understood as a sort of reversal of the sanctification of Jews in Western culture — the whole idea of Jews as a sacred chosen people, as infallible etc, or as a “sacrificial lamb” for the crimes of Western Empire. Cf. Rev. Wright’s “God damn America!”. I also recall hearing critiques of the “curse upon” translation of al-la3na 3ala l-yahud as being overly literal, as the phrase “a curse upon” might carry connotations closer to those of a typical swear word. Al-la3na is not necessarily thought of as a swear word by Arabic speakers, but it is something you might shout when surprised or angry, and it is very often used to translate swear words in other languages. So, “God damn the Jews”, “fuck the Jews”, “Jews ain’t shit”, these might be better translations depending on your preference. This is how I understand it, at least. ↩︎
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Finklestein had a good take on this. Said that ”the Israelis are the only Jews that the Yemenis have ever known. How could you blame them?” I’d find a link but I’m on mobile, it was at some college forum with Christopher Hitchens iirc
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It’s at least one mechanism of how liberalism breeds fascism. Another mechanism would be liberalism’s disproportionate focus on suppressing socialist and labor movements, meanwhile fascist movements are allowed to fester and grow strong enough to “overthrow” a liberal state designed from the beginning to be impotent against that sort of attack. I compare this to lions playfighting with their cubs and deliberately losing. And there are other mechanisms through which liberalism sows its own replacement by fascism, too, I’m sure.
This being said, disingenuous translations that play into ethnic stereotypes are a genuine tool of imperialist propaganda, and I think there is a fine line between doing language policing and playing into liberal framing, versus pointing out inaccurate or unnuanced translations to show liberal propaganda for what it is. The North Korean word for “hamburger” stands out as another example: there’s this whole urban myth about Kim Jong-il claiming to have invented the hamburger and calling it “double bread with meat”, but this literally never happened! It’s just a telephone game of sensationalized bad translations. What actually happened is that Kim Jong-il proposed trying to popularize hamburgers in the DPRK as a way to help feed the people, and hamburgers just ended up being called “meat sandwiches” in North Korean, because North Korean is a more conservative lect with fewer loanwords than South Korean — the North Korean word for “sandwich” itself literally meaning “double bread”, hence the deliberately stilted translation of “double bread with meat” in WaCkY MyThS NoRtH KoReAnS AcTuALLy BeLiEvE clickbait articles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxKHNr590Wo&t=35
The video you speak of. Simple and excellent argument
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Same in Poland in 1945, anti-german sentiment and hatred was strong because to be german was to be nazi.
Finklestein’s parents notably HATED Germans lol. Also can’t blame them.
Absolutely, and I’m assuming most people here would agree. The footnote is really just so that other people have Ansarallah’s own official rhetoric in case they ever need it, but I’m sure that the average Yemeni on the street hasn’t given the slogan nearly as much thought as a PR spokesman working with Anglo media, anyways. If nothing else, “because we always hear from our enemy about how the people bombing our shit are all innocent smolbeans chosen and blessed by God” is a good explanation for why “motherfuck the goddamn Jews” feels so particularly cathartic for many Yemenis to shout.
They must have some primo dirt on
Maldito seas estado de Israel!
click to read my mind
We need the Giga-chad-yes emote.
He’s like a psychic I swear
