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3 weeks, 5 days ago

'Totally wrong': Historian flags Trump defense pick's racist conspiracy theories

Donald Trump's nominee for defense secretary has made ahistorical Muslim rhetoric a major theme in his writings, and many of his views resemble those expressed by white supremacist mass murderers. “By the eleventh century, Christianity in the Mediterranean region, including the holy sites in Jerusalem, was so besieged by Islam that Christians had a stark choice: to wage defensive war …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Bill Clinton Justifies The Mass Killings Of Palestinians In Racist Michigan Speech

Huff Post

LOADING ERROR LOADING As Vice President Kamala Harris begins to make her closing arguments before the election, former President Bill Clinton decided to campaign for her by lecturing Muslim Arab American voters who oppose the Biden administration’s support for Israel’s ongoing attacks in Gaza ― going so far as to justify the massive number of Palestinian civilians killed by the …

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

Racist ‘Star War’ Fans Made Sure ‘The Acolyte’ Would Fail

Huff Post

Amandla Stenberg in Lucasfilm's "The Acolyte," which is streaming on Disney+. And it made this job all worthwhile for me.” Before Stenberg, John Boyega faced a similar racist backlash as a lead actor in the “Star Wars” sequel trilogy. In May, while receiving the honorary Palme d’Or in the closing night ceremony at Cannes, “Star Wars” creator George Lucas called …

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9 months, 1 week ago

Why India must look beyond CAA

Hindustan Times

Four years after the Citizenship Act, or CAA, was introduced, the Union home ministry on Monday introduced the rules to implement the law. PREMIUM Bhopal: Sindhi Community refugees from Sindh province of Pakistan celebrate after the central government notified the rules for implementation of the Citizenship Act, 2019, in Bhopal, Monday, March 11, 2024. Article 14 of the Constitution is …

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11 months, 1 week ago

North Korea’s Kim shuts agencies working for reunification with South Korea

Al Jazeera

Kim Jong Un says his country does not want war but does not seek to avoid it. North Korea has scrapped several government bodies tasked with promoting reconciliation and reunification with South Korea as authoritarian leader Kim Jong Un warned that his secretive country does not seek to avoid war. In a speech to North Korea’s rubber-stamp parliament, the Supreme …

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1 year, 6 months ago

Paying homage to Bawa on Galle Road

Live Mint

If you go on an extended pilgrimage to hotels in southern Sri Lanka designed by the great Sri Lankan architect Geoffrey Bawa, it is hard not to be overcome by a heretical, ahistorical thought. In a lecture in Dhaka, Bangladesh, in 1985, Bawa suggested this view had cast a spell even over its creator: “If the world were only flat, …

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1 year, 6 months ago

Review: Shia LaBeouf stars in Abel Ferrara’s ahistorical historical drama ‘Padre Pio’

LA Times

‘Padre Pio’ The offbeat historical drama “Padre Pio” bears the stamp of writer-director Abel Ferrara, a maverick filmmaker known for brutish, feverish genre pictures like “Bad Lieutenant” and “The Addiction.” As is his wont, Ferrara makes some creative choices here that may alienate some viewers. Available on VOD; also playing theatrically in limited release Reed Harkness in 2003, from the …

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1 year, 6 months ago

Were the founding fathers "woke"? Well, compared to the modern-day GOP — definitely

Salon

It is, of course, deeply ahistorical and borderline offensive to call the founding fathers of the American republic a bunch of "woke" liberals. Greene's no-longer-BFF, Rep. Lauren Boebert, was even more direct in saying, "I'm tired of this separation of church and state junk." How can I possibly claim that the founders — many of whom owned, bought and sold …

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1 year, 7 months ago

Political agenda pushers should let Tagore’s quotes be

Live Mint

Rabindranath Tagore’s 162nd birth anniversary was celebrated a few days ago. One columnist, worried about a “majoritarian political and religious dispensation”, went further, quoting something Tagore wrote in 1911: “In order to salvage this inequality, the Muslims have started demanding more than the Hindus. They are not just satisfied with observing their own religions but are determined to destroy all …

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2 years, 1 month ago

Slavery was race conscious — but critics of affirmative action want you to believe that laws meant to protect Black people weren’t meant to

Raw Story

Originalist arguments will always be silly to me, but if you’re going to apply them at least get the history right. The Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the latest attack on affirmative action in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard during which attorney Cameron Norris, for Students for Fair Admissions, the group challenging Harvard’s policy, argued that the legislation …

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2 years, 3 months ago

‘Poetry works to encourage discovery’: In conversation with Mihir Vatsa, winner of the 2022 Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar

The Hindu

Published : Sep 01, 2022 16:29 IST Poet and photographer Mihir Vatsa’s Tales of Hazaribagh: An Intimate Exploration of Chhotanagpur Plateau, which has won the 2022 Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar, is a genre-defying book. Combining travel writing with adventure, history, research, personal anecdotes, it is as much as story of the author’s individual development as it is of the Chhotanagpur …

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2 years, 4 months ago

Bollywood’s Rajput Kings: Beyond Shiny Swords, Moustaches & ‘Hindu’ Crusaders

The Quint

The film ‘Samrat Prithviraj’ ends with a note that the death of Prithviraj Chauhan marked the end of Hindu rule in northern India and that India would remain under foreign rule for the next 755 until independence in 1947. One major assumption has been the association of the ‘Muslim’ rule with a foreign and culturally inimical matrix, barely different from …

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2 years, 6 months ago

Clarence Thomas’ Latest Guns Decision Is Ahistorical and Anti-Originalist

Slate

In a 6–3 decision reflecting the sharp partisan divide on the nation’s highest court, the Supreme Court struck down New York’s century-old gun law against concealed carry on Thursday. Thomas and his fellow originalists have set out to analogize the Second Amendment to core free speech rights, a bizarre legal analogy with little foundation in either legal history or tradition. …

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2 years, 10 months ago

Op-Ed: For Inglewood, it won’t be a Super Sunday

LA Times

Cities like Beverly Hills and Redondo Beach don’t want to host massive sports complexes — too disruptive to their quality of life. The scheme went before Inglewood voters as a ballot measure, which Walmart was confident it would win — it had the support of many city officials, not to mention millions to spend on a “yes” campaign that all …

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3 years, 3 months ago

Unmasking Hindutva

The Hindu

SOCIAL science academics associated with American and European universities organised a three-day online conference titled “Dismantling Global Hindutva” from September 10 to 12 with the stated aim of bringing together “scholars of South Asia specialising in gender, economics, political science, caste, religion, health care, and media in order to try to understand the complex and multifaceted phenomenon of Hindutva”. The …

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3 years, 3 months ago

Irfan Habib: Defender of history

The Hindu

A remarkable symposium, entitled “In Defence of History”, was hosted by the reputed academic journal Social Scientist, the Safdar Hashmi Memorial Trust and Tulika Books on August 12 to celebrate the 90th birthday of Professor Irfan Habib, legendary historian, progressive intellectual and leading role model for generations of students and scholars. Aditya Mukherji’s presentation drew attention to “the close umbilical …

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3 years, 8 months ago

For many in the Jewish community, so-called "Christian Seders" are "100% cultural appropriation"

Salon

On Sunday, an image began circulating on social media of a challah loaf that had been braided into the shape of a cross. However, the images of Friesen's meal serve as a blatant visual metaphor for the growing trend of American Christians, especially Evangelicals, co-opting the traditional Jewish Passover Seder and hosting so-called "Christian Seders." "The Seder is really about …

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54 years, 11 months ago

Donald Trump Hasn’t ‘Already Won’ the Election

Wired

As the clock turned toward 1 am EST, American democracy was actually running pretty smoothly. The presidential race remains vanishingly close, and Trump could well end up securing a second term. Twitter left the initial tweet alone but covered a subsequent Trump missive—in which Trump equates counting votes after November 3 with "stealing" the election—with a warning that "some or …

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'Totally wrong': Historian flags Trump defense pick's racist conspiracy theories

Bill Clinton Justifies The Mass Killings Of Palestinians In Racist Michigan Speech

Racist ‘Star War’ Fans Made Sure ‘The Acolyte’ Would Fail

Why India must look beyond CAA

North Korea’s Kim shuts agencies working for reunification with South Korea

Paying homage to Bawa on Galle Road

Review: Shia LaBeouf stars in Abel Ferrara’s ahistorical historical drama ‘Padre Pio’

Were the founding fathers "woke"? Well, compared to the modern-day GOP — definitely

Political agenda pushers should let Tagore’s quotes be

Slavery was race conscious — but critics of affirmative action want you to believe that laws meant to protect Black people weren’t meant to

‘Poetry works to encourage discovery’: In conversation with Mihir Vatsa, winner of the 2022 Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar

Bollywood’s Rajput Kings: Beyond Shiny Swords, Moustaches & ‘Hindu’ Crusaders

Clarence Thomas’ Latest Guns Decision Is Ahistorical and Anti-Originalist

Op-Ed: For Inglewood, it won’t be a Super Sunday

Unmasking Hindutva

Irfan Habib: Defender of history

For many in the Jewish community, so-called "Christian Seders" are "100% cultural appropriation"

Donald Trump Hasn’t ‘Already Won’ the Election