CW: Violence

Update 20:00 EST :

Hours after he was attacked and stabbed, author Salman Rushdie was on a ventilator, with a damaged liver, severed nerves in an arm, and an eye he was likely to lose, his agent said.

    • ThomasMuentzner [he/him, comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      its not Relevant what EmmaGoldmann or Ziege_Bock think about it , its Relevant what Iran and 10 other Countries thinks about it...

      I have not Read it ..

        • EmmaGoldman [she/her, comrade/them]
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          2 years ago

          It's banned in India, Bangladesh, Sudan, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Kenya, Thailand, Tanzania, Indonesia, Singapore, and Venezuela.

          • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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            edit-2
            2 years ago

            It's not banned in South Africa I can literally buy it right now.

            https://www.exclusivebooks.co.za/search?keyword=9780963270702

            It was banned during apartheid by the apartheid government in 1988. No longer banned. Ban lifted in 2002 by the ANC

    • EmmaGoldman [she/her, comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      I have not read it, nor do I have any interest in doing so. However, that's not the point. My point is that it's insane to equate animosity towards what people feel is hate speech and homophobia as being functionally the same thing.