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24 Sep, 4 tweets, 1 min read
the runaway bourgeois morality of schmaltzy underdog sports movies is such a potent ideological drug. Watching the Kurt Warner grocery-bagger-to-Super Bowl champion trailer I'm reminded of 'Sugar' (2008) which brilliantly subverted the genre and no one ever saw it.
growing up my father would constantly reference Rudy (1993), without irony, as some type of moral guide. A deeply reactionary movie that is also extremely moving and good at convincing poor whites the highest moral order is getting your head bashed in nonstop and not complaining
the big lesson at the end is Charles S Dutton regretting he complained too much about racism in the 1930s!
early 1950s, maybe but my point stands.

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It’s immigration and xenophobia. For some reason the role of so-called “center right” parties in Europe being worried about immigration flows from Afghanistan drawing voters to further right parties is almost entirely ignored in these “European leaders are mad at Biden” pieces.
Read what they actually say! They speak in soft EU liberalese but Merkel, Macron, Johnson are very upset the Taliban takeover may result in more Muslim immigrants. They often evoke Syrian “wave” of 2014-18 as to why it’s a problem and hide behind the polite language of “security”
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Oh hey it’s that “analysis” vertical at the Times where NYT reporters are allowed to write thinly veiled opinion pieces that aren’t called opinion pieces for some reason
“Some” argued. Just not Peter Baker who was born without opinions or ideological objectives
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