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Re: Deepa Kumar - Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire
Posted by Marcello (Guest) - Thursday, November 13 2014, 17:05:04 (UTC)
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If you do end up watching this, then you'll see how Dr. Kumar explains the reason why someone like myself thinks of Affleck as a "good liberal" vs "bad liberal" (Bill Maher), but a liberal nonetheless who is as much as a part of the problem as is Maher. The atrocious film Affleck made (ARGO) was a piece of CIA propaganda... when he received the Oscar who was it that opened the envelope... surrounded by Secret Service at the White House? First Lady Michelle Obama. The next day, Pepe Escobar of Asia Times wrote that on Oscar night, once again like last year's ZERO DARK THIRTY (another piece of propaganda rationalizing the use of torture), Pepe, like many others declared that this year, the CIA won... again. Affleck means well (I guess) but ARGO totally destroyed any respect I had for him -- just as I'm beginning to lose respect for Jon Stewart for making his film debut, ROSEWATER, about... Iran. Well, not just about Iran, but the experience of an Iranian/American journalist, Maziar Bahari, who was arrested in Tehran during or after the 2009 elections when the Green Party emerged, a party of the comprador class and wealthy kids in northern Tehran, as some now believe. I despise the Iranian theocracy, the Supreme Leader and the donkey he rode in on, but that doesn't mean that I, like most L.A. Iranians, got excited merely because a propaganda film mentions Iran. It's as shameful as our own reading letters of rejection and boasting about how, as you say, "..."at least they know we exist". Affleck's film was based on lies. It was not the CIA who rescued the diplomats, it was the Canadians! One of the things in the movie that was just atrocious was a scene in which young children are inside the embassy and are working slavishly to splice together all of the documents which the embassy employees were attempting to shred. How is it that an illiterate 10 or 12-year-old poor Iranian kid is able to read English at university level to be able to put destroyed diplomatic patches together in such a frenzied hurry? The fact is that there was no child labor, as Affleck tries to imply (or impose) on the audience. It was young womaen and men who had studied abroad at Oxford, Cambridge, Columbia University, etc., that enabled them to be able to put the pieces of the puzzle together. No Iranian child, unless a prodigy and fluent in English and Persian, is or was able to perform this task. BUT, since Affleck and Matt Damon were both friends and acquaintances of the Zinns and the Chomskys, I'll give him the benefit of the doubt and accept that his heart was/is in the right place.



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