That prick Will Smith has given people ideas...
Salman Rushdie is stabbed ahead of speech in New York
Author Salman Rushdie has been injured after being stabbed in New York. Police have named his attacker as Hadi Matar, 24, who was arrested after the attack in Chautauqua, upstate New York.www.dailymail.co.uk
Oh, please.That prick Will Smith has given people ideas...
Seriously, people had those ideas about attacking Rushdie from years ago. Which is why he was in hiding for so long. I'm not sure someone just found a new sense of agency. I hope Rushdie will be ok. This is sad, and at such a place of literary congeniality as Chautauqua.
Yes, of course this idea has been around for decades — hence my reference to the fatwa. I wasn’t born yesterday, I assure you. However there is a renewed sense of violent entitlement these days, and I think that stirred up again this idea of attacking Rushdie.
agreed. It's interesting that in the wake of the Will Smith incident, all of a sudden we're seeing pricks thinking it's ok to assault people on a stage. One might choose to believe that there's no causality there. But Salman Rushdie has been giving speeches in friendly countries for decades. Decades! But suddenly this happens now, and we're not supposed to assume the a-hole decided to prosecute the attack in the way he did? Well forgive me but the possibility is definitely on the table!
I'm not too sure what the bolded part has to do with anything? Were you being satirical?
I agree, I don't think Islamist fundamentalists think too much about what Hollywood stars do, they have their own more homegrown bloody examples to follow. The Salman Rushdie attack is immeasurably tragic, and I hope it wakens people up to the fragile nature of freedom and how easy it can be taken away. Even in secular societies there are Trans jihadists attacking writers, comedians, filmmakers etc, cancel culture is rife, and one thing we learned about the horrific fatwa placed on Rushdie, and subsequent attacks and threats to individuals for freely posting what they will, is that the west has internalised the threat and been silenced to a large extent, and that this cannot continue...
If Trump had a single patriotic hair on his head he'd never run for office again. I don't live there but even I see that America is divided between two terrible choices and the divisions are getting worse. You need candidates that are brave to try to understand and appeal to both sides...Anyone else would've been arrested, but for some reason we allow the stupidest, most evil SOB to run around bragging about getting away w/ it!
Hopefully in the next election you’ll have at least one decent candidate from either party for people with common sense to vote for, though who knows where they’ll come from? If people stopped thinking of themselves in terms of the party their mammy voted for, and instead judged political issues without bias, politicians might even bother to try…Watched a little news programming and the commentators parrot that sentiment! In their opinions, supposedly the support of Black women put Biden in office! They helped I'm sure, but IMO it's BS! Republicans w/ common sense put Biden in his chair! Who else were they supposed to support, psycho TRUMP?
I wasn't being satirical. Russia is not hospitable to gay people. And I doubt they're especially open-minded about women or Black people. And I'm not really kidding that I don't care who they give back. Brittney Griner is a well-respected athlete and doesn't deserve to moulder in a Russian prison. I still think there is a 50% chance she was set up, and made to say what the Russians wanted her to.
In a country this big, with an electorate this disparate, there is no one group that got Biden elected, but Black women deserve more than a little credit. In one person, for example, Stacey Abrams and her efforts in GA. I agree that Republicans who couldn't stomach any more of Trump helped, too, but I wouldn't give them that much credit, as there were still plenty out there drinking the Kool-Aid. You can read the data on the breakdown here from Pew. It's interesting, but it was a lot of things that put Joe over the top.Watched a little news programming and the commentators parrot that sentiment! In their opinions, supposedly the support of Black women put Biden in office! They helped I'm sure, but IMO it's BS! Republicans w/ common sense put Biden in his chair! Who else were they supposed to support, psycho TRUMP?
It’s not impossible that she was set up, it’s also not impossible that she wasn’t set up, and if that’s the case, she’s going to face what she deserves, under their law. I get what you mean about regrettable Russian attitudes but if she’s guilty, that’s her problem now, isn’t it? She went there voluntarily, knowing all this…
Let's imagine that she wasn't set up. I still think there's more nuance in here than just Crime and Punishment. (Sorry...I couldn't resist that.) As @Federberg pointed out, farther up this chain, Griner doesn't make enough money as an WNBA player not to have to play in a foreign country in the off-season, and therefore, Russia. She also comes from a place where what she did was legal, to a place where it wasn't. There is also much discussion that athletes use legal hash oil (in her case) or CBD for pain management, which is certainly part of an athete's life, and a legal option in many places. Surely better than getting addicted to painkillers. We don't know all the fine points of this case, I'm sure, but she had less than an ounce of hash oil on her, which is legally prescribed for her in the US. Is this worth 9 1/2 years in a Russian prison, which also would surely be the end of her athletic career? No athlete wants to be a political football. (Ask Novak.) But some situations are more dire than others. I think Griner deserves what the US can do to get her out of there.
Okay, let’s stop here. If it’s not legal in Russia, then it’s irrelevant if it’s legal in other places. Agreed? People often travel to the ME, get drunk and inappropriate, and whine that they’re treated unfairly, when they had to have checked out the local laws before they went. Kind of like Novak, who claimed ignorance of Australian laws, which didn’t make his case against them same laws any stronger.
Unfortunately, if that’s their laws, it might well be. Her career isn’t an issue they can be expected to factor into their legal deliberations.
The US can certainly try, but be careful, because the Russians will ask a high price that might have dire and murderous consequences down the line, and personally speaking, I’m not convinced America should go that route, especially if they also suspect she’s guilty. As you say, she uses this stuff where it’s legally accepted, so it isn’t beyond the realms that they caught her with it. A problem for the US govt, and the reason why I asked if you were being satirical, is that they’re compromised by identity politics and so will face pressure from the usual hustlers to rescue her because “she’s black, gay and female”, and not because she’s innocent.
www.theguardian.com
The pronoun-ho’s are a protected class. They’re victims. They’re on the team. “Sir, how did you get blood on your shirt?”So crimeing is ok if you're trans-gender as well? We already know that a woman like Amber Heard can shit on her husband's bed, smack him around and generally defame him and still not get fired by her film studio. Doesn't sound like WB want to sack this dude (or dudette... oh who gives a shit) either. Meanwhile at the first sign of an unproved allegation Depp is sacked. I know we're in hell, but someone please tell me which fucking circle is this??
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