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Originally Posted by paulgiamatti
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Also, on the topic of Sam Harris, if you haven't seen this interview yet you're in for a treat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vln9D81eO60
This whole thing came as quite a surprise to me after watching Argo, which I actually thought was a great film and a very accurate depiction of a late 1970s theocratic Iran. Needless to say, I think much less of Ben Affleck after seeing this. |
Argo is as accurate a depiction of Iran as the Lion King is of how a pride of lions operates.
I hate to defend it because it's a shit hole, but I ever meet the makers of that movie or the last season of Homeland, I will kick them in the Nuts for their blatant propaganda.
Persians have never been, and will never be, stupid. We have many shortcomings, like how I had a full beard at age 11 and the white kids called me Moses, but we aren't caricature-like Arabs who scream Allahu Akbar and then set off a C4 vest. Islam is a very small aspect of the culture... Unfortunately the government uses Jizzlam as a CYA tactic to hide the fact that the IRGC is nothing more than a military dictatorship.
Let my people go