• Kusimulkku
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    8 months ago

    The Japanese blind anime monk was the peak for me. The book had some good parts but man, what the hell was some of that shit

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      8 months ago

      The author’s understanding of people in countries that isn’t the US seems to be based on tourism-brochure level tropes and not much else. And his depictions of South Africa and Israel betrays a lot of fascistic sympathies.