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"Although he neither speaks nor reads Persian, he is a popular interpreter of Rumi, rewriting the poems based on other English translations" white liberals lmao (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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this mf is a bit on Trillbilly's podcast lol

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

mayos like this really be translating all the text from every single non-european culture and gatekeeping every single english-language Wikipedia article and then you wonder why there are unsourced quotes about Genghis Khan being white lmao

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (1 children)

westerners are only able to view the world through a western lens, and is probably one of the reasons why all the "bad country watchers" are always so incredibly wrong

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What are you talking about? China's 700th collapse is imminent! They only got like a week left! It's any day now!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

there's no way the inferior russian military could match up to superior western wonder weapons, ukraine will win any day now