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The Cancellation of ‘Jihad Rehab’

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Re: The Cancellation of ‘Jihad Rehab’

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Post by rhinoceraptor »

8f2ab37a-ed6c wrote: post #28
subpixel wrote: post #22

“More than 230 filmmakers signed a letter denouncing the documentary. A majority had not seen it.” Just a reminder that the far ends of the political spectrum loop back and connect.

This is all reminiscent of the 80s and 90s Christian right groups picketing outside of Rock and Roll concerts demanding that Marilyn Manson be forbidden from playing in their town because of his corrupting influence on the youth, that his music was going to lead to real physical harm. Same with dungeons and dragons before that. Had any of them ever listened to that music? Ever played a D&D session? Nope. It's interes…

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Re: The Cancellation of ‘Jihad Rehab’

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Post by davidguetta »

rayiner wrote: post #37

> It was the first time that Smaker realized that her film might be controversial. “She hadn’t seen the film,” Smaker recalls, “but seemed unhappy that I — as a non-Muslim — was making a film about Muslims.” After she saw it, Chehab went on to write on the TRT World website: “The only perspective needed is the Muslim one. . . . When I, a practicing Muslim woman, say that this film is problematic, my voice should be s…

I agree, especially because there is no "muslim view" actually here since they disagree.

That said it is important to keep in mind that the biggest defenders or retarded practices are often the ones victim of it. Same for excision in Africa.. its often the grandmother who take the little girls to the "doctor" to have it "performed".. so its not a generality

Re: The Cancellation of ‘Jihad Rehab’

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Post by [deleted] »

brutusborn wrote: post #29
subpixel wrote: post #22

“More than 230 filmmakers signed a letter denouncing the documentary. A majority had not seen it.” Just a reminder that the far ends of the political spectrum loop back and connect.

Is this from another article or did you change the quote? The article says "...signed by over 200 filmmakers, many of whom had never seen the film"

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Re: The Cancellation of ‘Jihad Rehab’

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Post by phnofive »

kuramitropolis wrote: post #45
seibelj wrote: post #20

The safest play is to create all art as metaphor, just as the writers of great Russian literature did. You can’t be too plain spoken because that opens you up to attack by the mob. Rather, hide your meaning and the censors won’t feel it necessary to ban.

The censors' safe play is also well known: Introduce mandatory "what did the author mean" classes in schools, where children write down the one true interpretation of a corpus of sanctioned texts from preferably >100 years ago, under dictation, for many years; until they are completely incapable of approaching a work of art to understand it for themselves. It's not 100% effective, but the remaining few percent end up…

I hope this is a metaphor as well...

Re: The Cancellation of ‘Jihad Rehab’

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Post by tims33 »

happyopossum wrote: post #49
tims33 wrote: post #16

Terrible story. This should not have happened to this film. I do not know what has happened to a country which has free speech and press enshrined in it's constitution. It is also sad that the National Review which paints itself as this bastion of objectivity publishes such breathless headlines.

Wait a sec - so the story is terrible, but the headline shouldn’t point that out?

Two things can be true. The story is terrible and the publisher of the story is a part of the problem too.

Re: The Cancellation of ‘Jihad Rehab’

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Post by jdminhbg »

tims33 wrote: post #16

Terrible story. This should not have happened to this film. I do not know what has happened to a country which has free speech and press enshrined in it's constitution. It is also sad that the National Review which paints itself as this bastion of objectivity publishes such breathless headlines.

I don’t think NR has ever positioned itself as objective, it’s an explicitly conservative magazine and always has been.

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Post by carabiner »

mmanfrin wrote: post #26
subpixel wrote: post #22

“More than 230 filmmakers signed a letter denouncing the documentary. A majority had not seen it.” Just a reminder that the far ends of the political spectrum loop back and connect.

Just a reminder that the horseshoe theory isn't fact.

Though with the dirtbag left now flirting with being "trad cath" and softening towards racial realism, it does seem like it's approach the intellectual fascism of the nazis.

Re: The Cancellation of ‘Jihad Rehab’

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Post by happyopossum »

tims33 wrote: post #55
happyopossum wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wait a sec - so the story is terrible, but the headline shouldn’t point that out?

Two things can be true. The story is terrible and the publisher of the story is a part of the problem too.

How is the publisher part of the problem by pointing out a shameful injustice?

Re: The Cancellation of ‘Jihad Rehab’

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Post by lamontcg »

The Guardian pretty much contradicts the spin being offered here:

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/jul/29/jihad-rehab-for...

Sounds like it isn't a "woke mob" coming after her, but the actual subjects of the film really feel like they're being taken advantage of, their perspectives are really distorted and they felt she was re-interrogating them. The idea that the film is being cancelled solely because the filmmaker is a white woman seems to be being pushed by the filmmaker.

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Post by happyopossum »

jdminhbg wrote: post #56
tims33 wrote: post #16

Terrible story. This should not have happened to this film. I do not know what has happened to a country which has free speech and press enshrined in it's constitution. It is also sad that the National Review which paints itself as this bastion of objectivity publishes such breathless headlines.

I don’t think NR has ever positioned itself as objective, it’s an explicitly conservative magazine and always has been.

Yeah - GP appears to just want to dunk on the NR I stead of comment about the story.
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