I gotta say, the take on Black Panther that T'Challa is the "CIA-backed" Shah and Killmonger is the Ayatollah Khomeini, and therefore we've been rooting for the wrong side, is 1) absolutely fucking ridiculous 2) still makes you the asshole even if the comparison were 100% valid
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(Qasim is a better example than the ayatollahs because like Killmonger has revolution was not overtly religious and did present itself as a "progressive" form of ethno-regional liberation - he was a Pan-Arabist the way Killmonger presented as a Pan-Africanist)
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(Guess what, after the war the whole thing about all Arab countries gathering together as equals with Iraq's benevolent support to throw off the West's shackles and enter a new era of prosperity together... didn't really pan out)
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