The exclusion of white males in upper middle class life is becoming insane and genuinely racist. I know a bank whose legal team's hiring policy is "no non-blacks". Another large firm told a relative of mine to give all promotions this year to blacks only. Several people on the admissions committee I sat on said they purposely gave whites, esp. white men, lower scores. White guys who scored 75th percentile + in testing and gpa that couldn't get into a single law or med school. All explicitly premised on racial animus against whites

JBP's vid brings up something interesting - the idea that "the Sunnis" fight against disbelievers because of interpersonal animosity or actual hatred toward them. Sunnism does not teach that BUT tbf many militant Sunni groups do espouse that rhetoric Many militant Sunnis do misrepresent what external jihad/ Islam's violent conquests actually mean. Historically they were not wars of extermination or of hatred for the disbeliever as a man. They were political wars, to replace evil (non-Muslim) rulership with just (Muslim) ones

The relationship between Islamic aesthetics and modernist art and design is well-documented in the fashion and art worlds, but is under-appreciated in general, especially in the Islamic world. A thread on Islamic design and Cartier, a designer at the vanguard of modernism - By the early 20th century, and especially during the interwar, Islam became something of a fad amongst the upper classes of Europe and North America. These classes were also heavily involved in avant garde art movements. It was natural they’d come together. See fancy dress: