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Iran demonization propaganda. De la France, avec amour.
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I dont know if you have noticed the massive and incredibly positive media coverage of this movie. It was featured 3 different times in 2 months in my local newspaper (the same newspaper that is).

But how coherent 'Persepolis' really is? Veiled facts, misconceptions, racism, and arbitrarity abound in a self-proclaimed autobiography that is given the character of factual, or of a 'sincere' intimate approach at the situation of a nation.

How much of a coincidence is it that a demonization movie like 'Persepolis' is being showcased globally and given full media coverage, at the most key times of the West-Iran tensions, when it was awarded in Cannes over a year ago?

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[weldon29]

Your comparing Al Capone, one of the most notorious mobsters in America, to a family who owns some alcohol?

[germanicus24]

@weldon29 No, be careful. I am comparing breaking the law in Iran with breaking the law in the USA. I am comparing how our Western entertainment industry portrays those who fight people who break the law in those two different countries.

And finally, I am making mention to Marjane Satrapi's dirty business in Iran. She was one of the "witnesses" of election fraud in 2009 while living thousands of km away in France and demanding regime change for the US Department of State.

[germanicus24]

@patachu666 Why does Iran need a revolution? Because the Iranian people refuse to please your own personal whims? So much for the tolerance and freedom of expression of our Westerner secularists ^^

[annarerri]

I am a bit confused...

The alcohol ban in the USA failed misserably because people will drink if they want to and will do bad or good because they want  to. No goverment must be the one that decides on ones freedom to drink or not, to smoke or not, to be religious or not. Freedom is about choises. If you can't choose for your self then you are not free.

I don't want to offend anybody but this is what i think the film is all about....

[germanicus24]

@jhhjljljwdw Sure. I have been one, and warmly welcomed :)

[jhhjljljwdw]

@germanicus24 Can you be an Atheist openly in Iran?

[germanicus24]

@Bananapocolypse It is actually you who is criticizing the Iranians for rebelling against the oppressive claws of NATO and the US, the biggest genocides and warmongers recorded by contemporary history. Because you adhere to their demonizing propaganda - one you never even cared to cross-examine but swallowed willingly - and deny Iranians the right to be self-determined, trying to impose your own beliefs onto them.

[germanicus24]

@Bananapocolypse Apparently you just take the whims of a few ones who are given the spotlight, like Marjane Satrapi, as your infallible spokesmen for reality.

Your negligence to study reality with your own intellect explains for you being a mouthpiece of third people's agendas, rather than a human being sincerely concerned, one fair to the wills of nations he has bothered to comprehend, and exercising critical thinking towards what is served to him in the comfort of his couch.

[germanicus24]

@Bananapocolypse Again I ask you, did you even care to study Iran away from the thick layers of propaganda that we get in the West? Have you even bothered to travel there to see for yourself or befriended people from all sides of the Iranian political spectrum to make up your own mind?

Clearly not, and by parroting our Western media mantra on the evilness of the democratically elected Iranian government, you are just showing your utter lack of respect for the people you claim to care about.

[Bananapocolypse]

@germanicus24 I find it funny because you are criticizing the Iranians for doing exactly what America was founded on - rebelling against an opressive government. The 20s mafia was RIGHT to fight prohibition. They were WRONG to use violence and scare tactics. If you bothered to read Persepolis (or watch it) you'd know that Marjane's family is subjected to violence and scare tactics from the Iranian govt, which makes the Iranian govt morally wrong. It's so simple a child could understand.

[germanicus24]

@Bananapocolypse Why do you find it funny? Have you taken the trouble to study about Iran free from the lenses of our Western propaganda, or cared to express your condolences to the families of the hundreds or thousands of innocent people and security forces killed in Iran by the mafias and terrorists who feed themselves from the trafficking of alcohol?

How does it make Iranian and American cops different? Oh yes, because Iranians are not secularized Westerners, so they deserve no pity.