That said, yes, fuck Card.
I always took Card's Ender as an intentional warning: we always have something in common with the people we fight, even in the event of an unknowable alien species of bugs, and that even a child shaped from birth to be a weapon can feel remorse for their enemies, so beware people dehumanizing others
See mine was "you can't make someone into a weapon and then be upset about it" and "don't make people into weapons"
For those who may still wonder why some of us insist on calling it the “criminal LEGAL system,” not “justice.” DAs pressure a man to plead guilty to a rape they already KNEW HE DID NOT COMMIT, withholding the DNA they KNEW exonerated him. 13 YEARS in prison. My GOD.
"the dismissal of authoritarian Christianity as ‘fake’ Christianity only serves to reinforce Christian hegemony by perpetuating the equation of ‘Christian’ with ‘good’ in the common imagination... " -chrissy stroop www.opendemocracy.net/en/5050/stop...
A year on from the Capitol Hill riots, US democracy is still under attack – and the media’s misunderstanding of religious values isn’t helping
He got to experience something he admired about Hitler - the love of this particular mountain - and something I like about Hitler - an untimely death.
First stop is always Istanbul — not Constantinople Been a long time gone, Constantinople Now it's Turkish delight, on a Gotham night Every graft in Constantinople Starts in Istanbul, not Constantinople So if you've a bribe in Constantinople It’ll be waiting in Istanbul Even old New York was once…