I agree, none of us knows anything about the veracity of this accusation, not the people involved, not the facts, no details, nothing at all. To take sides based on nothing but an abstract partisan faith in the assertions of one stranger against the other is just stupid where we know nothing. If there’s a case to be…

Her soul? That’s it?

The Pinterest Paris/London/Rome is all still there, for the rich. The poor and marginal were always out of sight, cleaning chimneys or floors, selling stuff or themselves, stitching in sweatshops or dying from tuberculosis in poor-houses. Picturesque is in the eye of the beholder. We still see what we want to see.

Careful, you nearly learned something there. In between the obtuse umbrage. Scholarly? Not really, to you perhaps.

Your perspective is mistaken on key points if well intended. Arabic is the lingua-franca of Islam even if the underlying culture expressed through the language of Arabic is frequently not at all Arabian (as much of Western culture is not necessarily English, although it may be expressed through that tongue). What you…

We should not forget the profound inheritance from those many and varied cultures conquered by Islam. Persia, Byzantium and Egypt were no intellectual slackers, as well as those such as India and China which repelled its initial advance. The classical inheritance was mainly preserved through Nestorian Chrisitians…

Absolutely, see if anyone notices.

No, but a lot of people would like not to see their children die of cholera. Your capacity for critical thought is as low as your IQ.

Furthermore, they’re all English speaking, from English language film. You would think the non-English speaking world (ie. most of the planet), did not exist. Parochialism is all a matter of perspective.

Ah, but it’s all about them; the power of unsophisticated narcissism.

Dissent is to be stifled. Utterly. Yes.

Well that was a pallid troll about the troll. His own egotistical “virtue-signaling and vicarious ‘enjoyment’”and lack of self-awareness is as laughable as the hashtag activism he derides. Pot? Meet Kettle.

Because it’s all about him.

Agreed. Huge talent. Gives voice to people and concepts ignored elsewhere.

No, you’re not. I love WW, and watch the after-show online too. WW discusses things, sometimes quite sensitive, volatile, and nuanced issues, that no one else with a regular TV slot ever does and not in a mealy-mouthed way. I think she’s a good thing for all the messiness.

Sad how crude the arguments are, Elem Klimov had the last word on Shooting Baby Hitler in Come and See, his 1985 film about the tragedies of WWII in Byelorussia

Swiftworld just reminds me of Heathers (and she’s definitely not Winona).

We just don’t deserve him. None of us.

Such a lack of respect for his unique musical genius. I mean. Really.

Only if I can remember which was which over the last fourteen years! Does the new iTunes still delete everything that’s not an iTunes purchase? 160GB, full, thousands and thousands of songs and that’s just the synched stuff not my total library {breathes into paper bag}