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Islamic Studies/Religious Studies prof, maker of pies, grower of jalapeños. I like birds. #firstgen
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yes I’m doing that for Zohran jaan
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we need to draw on but reimagine the models of past resistance
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yes and the security regime is morphing. Civilian tech bros were just made high-ranking army officers: Shyam Sankar, CTO Palantir;
Andrew Bosworth, CTO Meta;
Kevin Weil, Chief Product Officer OpenAI; Bob McGrew, advisor at Thinking Machines Lab and former Chief Research Officer OpenAI.
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2! most engaging (they are all rad but I like engaging, so 2)
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all of my immersive language study came out of federal funding.
Cuts to humanities funding will have long-term consequences across a lot of fields. It is tragic. Already only 40% of citizens hold a passport. w/out scholars who study world lang, politics, history, culture there’s only navel gazing
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ah. understood.
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amazing legacy
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2. Shi'i Islam the prevailing religion in Iran, has very deep theologies of resistance. Very deep. Analyses of power relations are embedded in its rituals and discourse. Clear articulation of resistance as religious practice. Islam is internally diverse; Shi'i Islam has distinct political theology.
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Two quick thoughts: 1. religion is not unitary nor even: in any religious context, people have varying degrees of commitment and practice in terms of the religious tradition they were born into. Iran, for example, has a very long history of secular and left organizing, pre-1979.
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the US has actively supported govts that were/are expressly undemocratic. Egypt, one of the largest recipients of US aid, for one, Saudi for another. US worked w British to assassinate Mossadegh. Etc. To ‘blame’ religious culture w/out seeing geopolitics of capital is just not accurate analysis.
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Democracy is not a matter of religion. It's a matter of recognizing and valuing interdependence.
People from many religious traditions hold and act on democratic values. People of many religious traditions hold to their superiority and act to dominate and dehumanize.
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Are Christianity and democracy compatible? Because so-called Christian nations have engaged in domination politics that have resulted in the deaths of millions and millions of people, over centuries and centuries, glossing over their crimes by invoking their superiority.
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2. This is being read in Iran as an existential stand against imperialism and impunity, Iran against a vicious West which is committed to genocide and crushing any state that challenges its hegemony. In that frame, Iran fights on behalf of the world.
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two more comments, if you allow me to state the obvious: 1. the strikes will more than likely shrink the possibility of democracy in Iran.
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very determined to dig in and stand up. Pretty striking statements. In any case, if analysts think a regime change to an opposition-led 'more open' Iranian government would make a significant difference in Iran-Israel relations, I would say that is overconfident and maybe even missing the mark.
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have you seen statements coming out of Iranian military and political leaders?
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two Putamayo cds pretty much saved me in grad school, vital vitality. I am sorry for your loss.
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the Dems should hold a daily news/press conference that both marks lies/distortions and covers crucial policy changes and social facts. Every day. They need to make space and take that space to maintain public knowledge. That they can’t or won’t is unfortunate for all of us.
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This is happening right now.
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
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one of the most important books on religion ever published in the U.S.:
James H. Cone, The Cross and the Lynching Tree:
orbisbooks.com/products/the...
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