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"Although he neither speaks nor reads Persian, he is a popular interpreter of Rumi, rewriting the poems based on other English translations" white liberals lmao (en.wikipedia.org)

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check out these categories:

American translators

Iranologists

Poets from Tennessee

Sufi poets

University of California, Berkeley alumni

this mf is a bit on Trillbilly's podcast lol

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[–] oregoncom@hexbear.net 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Plato's Cave was actually about white people refusing to ever read anything in it's original language.

[–] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago

I still think it didn't have a meaning; it was just Plato telling his buddy about his idea for a dystopian novel about people living in a cave looking at shadows (not everyone was cut out to tell stories)