A. M. Vincent
@vincent.northsky.social
Associate Professor, History of Religion. Migrant. Bad at gender, worse at writing bios. I do stuff involving religion and literature and genocide, usually all at once.
The Peace Prize is decided by a committee appointed by the Norwegian Parliament.
January 19, 2026 at 5:51 PM
The Peace Prize is decided by a committee appointed by the Norwegian Parliament.
I don't think you quite understand how this bribery thing works (25 left to go).
January 19, 2026 at 5:28 PM
I don't think you quite understand how this bribery thing works (25 left to go).
Not specific to students but this was definitely an argument used about Jewish refugees in 1938.
![[…] some believe that an exception should be made in favour of these refugees, because they are claimed to be victims of the worst savageries in recorded history. Every right-minded person abhors, of course, every sort of lawlessness and tyranny, and expects every civilized nation to refrain therefrom. Condemnation thereof is always justifiable. However, it is preposterous to assert that these refugees have been subjected to the worst savageries in recorded history. The fact that they are permitted to be refugees demonstrates the falsity of the assertion.
Writing in Coughlin’s periodical Social Justice, Sullivan goes on to assert that the greater part of sympathy should be reserved for victims “[i]n Red Russia and Red Spain,” where “the brutality has been so great that wholesale ‘liquidations’ and enslavements did not leave many who could qualify as refugees.” Similarly, Farage insisted that a “refugee is someone like a Jewish person in Germany or Austria, a refugee is someone like an Indian who was living in Idi Amin’s Uganda.” The rhetorical strategy at work is consistent: nobody is denying that there are genuine refugees, who have a genuine moral claim to assistance, but they are not the people who have presented themselves before us in this instance. Nobody could doubt that if genuine, deserving refugees were to present themselves, we would make available to them every possible assistance; we are, after all, good and moral people. These people before us, however, are not genuine; they are attempting to pass themselves off as something that they are not, to gain an unearned advantage, to trespass upon our generosity. They are, therefore, a threat. Farage’s statement is notable for the baldness with which it employs this logic, the immediacy with which it jumps from economic migrants to terrorists, but not for its originality in making such a connection.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:3qkwxblqlxoqgtepwi3lg5k2/bafkreialxzxggxza75d7yrwirpabqpj23wlp2so43r6fqooajgmrwq7xli@jpeg)
January 19, 2026 at 5:27 PM
Not specific to students but this was definitely an argument used about Jewish refugees in 1938.
Reposted by A. M. Vincent
In Accra for Ghana’s independence, VP Nixon “turned to the nearest Black man, slapped him on the shoulder, and asked what it felt like to be free. “I wouldn’t know, sir,” the man replied. “I’m from Alabama.””
January 19, 2026 at 12:33 PM
In Accra for Ghana’s independence, VP Nixon “turned to the nearest Black man, slapped him on the shoulder, and asked what it felt like to be free. “I wouldn’t know, sir,” the man replied. “I’m from Alabama.””
...although arguably that achieves the "Ruin a band" objective EVEN MORE.
January 17, 2026 at 7:59 PM
...although arguably that achieves the "Ruin a band" objective EVEN MORE.
Bush, the retro porn parody.
January 17, 2026 at 7:56 PM
Bush, the retro porn parody.
Rosh (a bunch of yeshiva dropouts playing prog klezmer)
January 17, 2026 at 7:53 PM
Rosh (a bunch of yeshiva dropouts playing prog klezmer)
Anyways the writing is going great.
January 16, 2026 at 10:44 PM
Anyways the writing is going great.