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   your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 (blogdiva@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 02-Oct-2023 01:59:52 JST your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦

   REQUIRED READING

   don't know Elizabeth Lopatto’s academic background but this is a master class in historical narratology:

   1. spot the unreliable sources
   2. find the unreliable narrator(s)

   now go back and re-read from the POV that:

   3. a biography is the biographer’s manifesto masquerading as the subject’s personal history

   4. #3 is even more true if it is an autobiography; especially if by proxy, like this book

   ❝ How the Elon Musk biography exposes Walter Isaacson
   https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/1/23895069/walter-isaacson-biography-musk-review

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     Gen X-Wing (breadbin@bitbang.social)'s status on Monday, 02-Oct-2023 04:10:10 JST Gen X-Wing

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     • Paul Cantrell

     @blogdiva @inthehands Explains why I felt something was off. I just have to assume all his writing is like this. This isn’t mistakes, this is intentional and planned.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 02-Oct-2023 04:10:10 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Gen X-Wing

     @breadbin @blogdiva
     I tend to think in these situations that the line between “intentional” and “oblivious/ self-deluding” is too fuzzy to draw — and also doesn’t really matter.

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     your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 (blogdiva@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 02-Oct-2023 04:56:01 JST your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦

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     BTW

     fascists are incapable of using the post #Mai68 #May1968 pedagogy we know as “desconstruction” so they’ve ramped up their cooptation.

     i scream every time i see American media parroting Bannon’s very deliberate appropriation of what are basically antifascist educational techniques

     this is the same with their appropriation of “grooming”: they know it is the cornerstone of all cult-like indoctrination, especially fascism.

     so they're trying to delegitimize awareness with transphobia.