To be honest, I know very little about current conflicts in the Middle East; it is shameful, I know. But I am trying to be get educated. With that in mind, it is important to note that all media is biased and generally all you can find online about the Middle East is that it is synonymous with terrorism, the people are terrorists and their religion promotes terrorism. Although I know that this is not the full story and that it is really dense to generalize a whole population, I really hadn’t thought about it that much. That’s why when I stumbled upon this video on my Facebook newsfeed, I was floored. The argument the CNN people were making is one you hear all the time but when you actually start to think about it, it’s super wack.
Anyways, I thought I would share it just because I thought it was relevant to Persepolis due to the content matter; enjoy!
There’s nothing shameful about not knowing every single thing that’s happening in this world Nina 🙂 There are a trillion things to learn in this world and even a avid news reader like doesn’t know everything. But the most important thing is not to know, but being able to acknowledge. Despite not knowing much details about the conflict in the Middle East, you were able to teach us that we should not generalize and make ambiguous claims.
Also Reza Aslan make some very good points; he argues that society and the media are using specific examples to describe a whole religion which is fundamentally wrong. This can relate to other discriminations such as racism or sexism. The act of an individual or a few cannot represent a whole.
Thank you for your awesome blog post 🙂
Haha thanks Kelvin! Yeah I mean you have to start somewhere, it’s just making that first leap that is nerve-wracking. 🙂