With next to no theory in it

My friend did this in the 00's. I was using that as an example of how being white holds cultural cache in china. Explaining why a bunch of randoms, might center a white guy in their pictures.

I know a white guy who was hired to act in a wine commercial because he's white. He was teaching English in China. He said it was because having a white person gave some cache to the commercial. Apparently, some white people are hired for parties to raise the social capital of the host. I think that's what you got caught up in. Looks like fun though

This is a reasonable response by someone trying to stop an escalation. The guy that's got no power to stop an escalation, but can hope that some Iranian can read between the lines. The guy that made that statement is probably not who I'm talking about

Thanks for sharing. I was able to find it from a different site

Emma Goldman didn't have good things to say about the Soviets. When she went there, the bureaucracy got in the way of her starting soup kitchens. She was also shunned by a lot of the left at that point for speaking about the problems of the Soviets. Which is all a round about way for me to wonder what the truth of Soviet occupation was like. I've got ancestors that were killed in Crimea by the communists, but I've always assumed it was because they were dirty capitalists because the story always mentions they owned a factory or mill. Makes me wonder because people don't understand how horrible we've got it in North America. They've been brainwashed to think everything is wonderful.

White's a construct. Italians and Greeks weren't white 50 years ago, but to answer your question, depends who you ask

The comments... Yikes

It's never even a denial of the genocide. If they were unintentionally ignorant, that would be better.

her poor father. He probably did his best, but some kids want to rebel, and for a Marxist becoming president of the US is a pretty big rebellious faze.

My small pedantic addition to your good comment: neolibs are neocons. They share the same ideology. They both think Thatcher was good

You reminded me of the town hall where newsy Steve martin asked her about whether they need a border wall and the discussion went something like: 'trump was bad at it.' 'But do we need it' 'Democrats are better at building it. Remember how much of a liar Trump is?'