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HASAN RIGHTFULLY POPS OFF ON CHATTERS WHO ARE TRYING TO EXCUSE MAUREEN GALINDO'S ANTISEMITIC COMMENTS ‼️ Her comments were awful and they deserve to be called out. They shouldn't be brushed off just because she is anti-Zionist. ‼️❌

I don't want an end to the U.S. empire that just means handing over global hegemony to authoritarians

中国最高人民法院近日发布文件，首次将「性取向、性别认同、性别表达」明确纳入歧视的法律保护范围。 「法院对性少数群体的合法权益予以平等保护，包括不得侮辱与诽谤他人性倾向、性别认同与性别表达，不得就业中基于性倾向、性别认同与性别表达的歧视，保护不同性倾向、性别认同与性别表达的学生。」

My theory of Drake hate has a lot to due to with the socialization of millennial white boys who would talk about “real music” (dadrock) against Justin Bieber in their youth, transferring that to Wayne/Drake in the YOLO era, but at the same time becoming “poptimistic” regarding rap (Kanye specifically) in the Obama era when it became gauche to not listen to rap, so then adopting the “real rap” borrowed authenticity in order to shield from accusations of “not getting the culture”— Kanye became problematic— so Kendrick Lamar was the golden child for this exact moment— one could now just say “Kendrick” & be “a real one” — & a Pulitzer Prize too! Nobody will judge you for “slumming it” when it’s “literary”— The Millennial White Boy is now a Millennial White Man & he says “Kendrick bodied Drake” & feels that he has absolved himself of all the guilt of saying “music is like candy, you throw out the rappers” in elementary school— Drake is too close to himself, Drake is a “white boy” in these terms of “ethnic authenticity” where the definition of “real rap” is west coast gangster rap that was “political” — this is what the Pitchfork review of Iceman is, “Drake is unserious party music, but Real Rap is Political and about Race & that’s Kendrick, & I am an intellectual” — they are still embarrassed about the idea of music being “fun” or “for the clubs” etc— music must be “an object of contemplation” to be “art.” Music isn’t for enjoying a car ride, in the car we listen to NPR, music is like a movie, you sit down with an album-experience, a concept album, & treat it like it’s a movie. Rap becomes an “audiobook/podcast” about the “real experience of african americans”— & you can tune in once a year & this is your penance for being “lowkey racist” against the genre in your youth. Real music is still a Pink Floyd concept album to you— it has to be narrativized as opera— it has to be HAMILTON hahahahaha