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Takeaway from the intro: "It’s enough to make you wonder whether there is any connection at all between elections and democracy." And reductionist as it is, the examples that Roy uses to back her brutal judgments resonate too strongly amidst the current backdrop of our own politics to be ignored.
— Mar 03, 2018 11:18PM
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Kenan
is 58% done
No punches pulled on the titular essay. Brilliant.
The battle with the cap-wearers of Istanbul, of Turkey, is not my battle, it’s yours. I have my own battles to fight against other kinds of cap-wearers and torchbearers in my country. In a way, the battles are not all that different.
— May 04, 2018 07:44PM
The battle with the cap-wearers of Istanbul, of Turkey, is not my battle, it’s yours. I have my own battles to fight against other kinds of cap-wearers and torchbearers in my country. In a way, the battles are not all that different.
Kenan
is 35% done
"The shoddy callousness with which the investigations were carried out demonstrate a worrying belief that they wouldn’t be “found out,” and if they were, it wouldn’t matter very much. Their confidence does not seem to have been misplaced." Worryingly reminiscent.
— Mar 19, 2018 08:53PM
Kenan
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"People who have lost control over their lives, people who have been uprooted from their homes and communities, who have lost their culture and their language, are being made to feel proud of something. Not something they have striven for and achieved, not something they can count as a personal accomplishment, but something they just happen to be. Or, more accurately, something they happen not to be."
— Mar 07, 2018 08:07PM
