Getting the Gist of It

Mortified and Unified

Posted by in ASTU G01, Uncategorized

^ What. It’s a common experience for people who have Facebook: you log on one day, only to find that an old post from years ago has resurfaced (usually thanks to so called “friends”) and is recirculating in its original, embarrassing glory (although there are ways to prevent that from happening, apparently). Personally, when I scroll back to 2009 and read my old “statuses” I have a hard time identifying with the person who wrote them. Or even, like with the cryptic and eloquent passage above, what must have been going through…read more

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Dangers of the Western “White Savior”

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In a 2002 post, Salam Pax, a prominent Iraqi blogger, suggests that a London based group of anti-war activists should rethink their plans “to act as human shields protecting strategic sites in Iraq,” suggesting that although “their hearts are in the right place and their support is much appreciated” efforts to provide actual resources and aid to refugees would make much more sense than to die needlessly. Pax, promoting the rational and more beneficial alternative to the theatrical agenda of the activists, raises questions about the original motives behind their initiative….read more

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