Do you believe that “Everything Is Political?”

[Murat B.]

But what you're saying about Gladiator is what you read into it, not the message of the movie, right? What's your complaint about entertainment films, and how you see them changed? Is it the films, or is it you?

The Hollywood preaching has gone so insane, and I am sure you agree which side Hollywood is on, that even an innocent comment like that makes me think this way. I am not happy about it. Making a point or virtue signalling has more importance now versus entertaining people.
As far as me changing...on the core issues that made me a classical liberal 15-20 years ago , I am still exactly where I am except the left has shifted so far to the left that now I fall on somewhere center right. I can break it down issue by issue if you wish on where left was 20 years ago and where they are now and where it puts me. Don't want to bore you to death necessarily though...

 

[brokenshoelace]

Maybe not everything, but seeing the backlash at the Qatar World Cup before it started, the performative activism, etc... compared to this US World Cup, it's hard to play the racism card because how the fuck else do you justify this?

The German team all of a sudden doesn't care for human rights violations. I wonder why.

 

[Federberg]

Ian Wright put something on social media about it. Some of the comments retorted that 6,000 workers died in Qatar. Here it is...

 

[brokenshoelace]

Ian Wright put something on social media about it. Some of the comments retorted that 6,000 workers died in Qatar. Here it is...

Oh I have no doubt there were human rights violations in Qatar. Just highlighting the double standards. Muslims/Muslim countries are the easiest people to target with no repercussions in the world. And it can range from some obscenely racist comment by the president of the United States to slaughtering Arabs in the Middle East as the free world cheerleads.

 

[Federberg]

Oh I have no doubt there were human rights violations in Qatar. Just highlighting the double standards. Muslims/Muslim countries are the easiest people to target with no repercussions in the world. And it can range from some obscenely racist comment by the president of the United States to slaughtering Arabs in the Middle East as the free world cheerleads.

I agree. And Qatar actually turned out to be one of the better world cups, and for sure the best final I've ever watched live

Although, funnily enough, I'm responding from a country where if you say anything bad about Muslims or the religion you're likely to get in serious trouble with the police