Anna D. West 🇺🇸
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America First. MAGA. Traditional conservative raised by liberals, escaped to sanity. Standing athwart history yelling stop. Actual/Woman
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Perspectives: Mozart premiered an entire opera about the Muslim enslavement of Europeans in Vienna in 1782, within 100 years of the Ottoman siege of that city. All of Europe, with Vienna at the center of the fight and with Barbary pirates still capturing innocent Christian Europeans, was still dealing with the constant threats from the Islamic world and only newly free of the threat of conquest by the Ottomans. This aria from The Abduction from the Seraglio (Die Entführung aus dem Serail), featured in the film Amadeus, is a woman singing of her resolve to remain pure and undefiled by the Turk who has abducted her, conceding that due to his determination to r*** her she will look forward instead to the liberation afforded by death itself. In a hit opera about the rescue of Christian women from the hands of Islamic traffickers. 1782. This was European high art and culture in 1782, based on current events and it's odd how many people want us to forget that.
Anna D. West 🇺🇸680,683 次观看 • 22 天前
Another case that doesn't fit the narrative and keeps flying under the radar, the Indian Creek Serial Killer: Fredrick Demond Scott, who previously expressed a desire to "k*** all white people," murdered 6 white people near a popular walking trail in the Kansas City Metro between 2016 and his arrest in 2017. 5 of the victims were white makes, some were walking their dogs when attacked. The 6th victim was a white homeless woman who is thought to have appeared male to Scott due to her clothing. The trial has been held up for almost a decade, families denied justice (see video, it's heartbreaking) because of competency hearings and the Byzantine intersections of justice and mental healthcare in Missouri, only recently cleared to proceed later this year. Same script as Iryna Zarutska's killer. Scott is repeatedly declared incompetent to stand trial, but is actively expressing racial hatred against white people, hatred he acted on.
Anna D. West 🇺🇸128,934 次观看 • 17 天前
This upset a few people convinced I had the history wrong or was trying to impose an "Islamophobic" viewpoint on Mozart's work. I'll repeat, in 1782 Mozart premiered an opera about the Muslim abduction enslavement of Christian Europeans, and did so within 100 years of the siege and battle of Vienna by the Ottoman Turks. At a time when the Islamic Barbary pirates were still a threat on the high seas. Here's the context for the aria Martern aller Arten (tortures of every kind) which I edited for length. I assure you, I imposed nothing either on Mozart or the true history behind the opera:
Anna D. West 🇺🇸106,742 次观看 • 19 天前
This wasn't an isolated incident, btw. Betty Friedan's only real talent was grievance mongering, not offering solutions, because her only solution was complete cultural revolution. "But who would do the dishes," she's asked while advocating for the wholesale destruction of the family. "Throw them away and use paper plates!"
Anna D. West 🇺🇸61,541 次观看 • 11 天前
Lupita Nyong'o "Our cast is representative of the world." While few people were looking, they did precisely the same thing with Mozart and 18th century Vienna. You needn't have any animosity towards the actors to understand precisely what's at play here. (Amadeus 2026, STARZ)
Anna D. West 🇺🇸70,609 次观看 • 17 天前
While references to the Barbary pirates and Islamic enslavement of European Christians is rare in the modern era, here's a notable exception. Outlander (book 1991, show 2014) doesn't focus much on the topic but does introduce a character who had been abducted and maimed during his captivity in Algiers. It's brief, but just these few sentences about character Hugh Munro's story says it all. Captured at sea, held in captivity, tortured in an attempt to convert him "to the Musselman religion," which is precisely how an 18th century character would've worded it. This was the all too unpleasant reality until the 19th century for Europeans. A constant threat of abduction and enslavement by Muslims, who in no way see a moral or religious issue in conquest, taxation or enslavement of non Muslims. Overall, Outlander was great at including these bits of history and kind of flew under the radar as a rather unwoke bit of television. There were a few films shortly after WW2 on the this topic but references dropped off sharply after that era, which made this scene all the more refreshing and realistic to the period:
Anna D. West 🇺🇸57,883 次观看 • 15 天前
In 1961, during the Civil War Centennial, Atlanta had a re-premiere of Gone With The Wind with Vivien Leigh, Olivia de Havilland and David O. Selznick in attendance. Here's some footage of them all at a ball, unveiling paintings of Clark Gable and Margaret Mitchell (who had both passed away), and a visit to the Cyclorama. The Centennial commemorations actually lasted from 1957-1965. Vivien Leigh would die of TB in 1967.
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