so theyre being told to watch S10E07 “Lisa gets an ‘A’”, then write about what they “did wrong” in a way that doesnt justify any of their actions.
i wonder how well u could maliciously comply with that order. maybe talk about how nation states are simply above the law; how the great USA was built on colonialism; how students are just cogs in the machine that are to do what theyre told, without question.
Add in a lot of quotes from zionists from the 40s and 50s who weren’t shy about justifying it by talking about “a small atrocity to correct a large one”
I probably would just maliciously, without the comply. Last time a schools did this the papers got preserved as important history.
The Simpsons is the least of the problems in this scenario. They’re trying to coerce the protestors into confessing to wrongdoing.
Death to America
There are other historical parallels. Karl specializes in Chinese history and notes that these papers “resemble, in so many ways, forms of re-education, forms of self-criticism that were used repeatedly during various periods of political turmoil”. Xi Jinping’s government, for example, is fond of televising forced confessions from human rights activists in order to pre-empt international criticism and help shape a narrative.
Hey look I found the “China bad” in the article. Leave it to a western liberal to draw a parallel between putting someone through a struggle session over being counter revolutionary and not being a genocidal fascist racist.
Because watching the Simpsons is torture?
Have you seen the latest seasons??!?
No, I try a couple episodes every few years and then drop it again, it’s probably been 4 years since I watched any.
Exactly
