these are people's homes, their ancestral homes. they're not lines on a map, arenas for simulation. media reflects the culture of its society and the western world spent a century fucking up this part of the world then calling itself the good guys who need to police these savages
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this is why I'm not good with colonialist and imperialist games. they perpetuate, normalize, the idea that entire cultures are acceptable fodder for exploitation, extermination. how long are we gonna keep rewarding them with our money and our attention?
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I said a century a few tweets ago then I remembered the crusades it's a very old story and honestly I'm sick of hearing it
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thinking of frankie boyles line American foreign policy: not only will America come to your country and kill all your people, but what's worse, I think, is that they'll come back 20 years later and make a movie about how killing your people made their soldiers feel sad.
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some white dude just called this thread performative guilt. I couldn't dunk on him any harder if I tried. truly the projection levels here are off the charts.
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'guilt' implies I feel bad because I've done something wrong. I haven't done shit. it's the white dudes making call of duty who need to feel guilt lmao but they won't because they're making $ off the exploitation of brown people.
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The Citations Needed podcast has an absolutely riveting and excellent 3 part episode about the depiction of arab and muslim people in hollywood and the media. I highly encourage you to listen to that
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Episodes 113 to 115
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I mean, I was enjoying playing Desert Strike in 1992 on the MegaDrive. Which was basically Gulf War the game.

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