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#allegory — Public Fediverse posts

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  1. Frontispiece to Athanasius Kircher's *China Illustrata* (1667) by Athanasius Kircher, from China Illustrata
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    Source: Library of the University of Seville / Flickr: The Commons

    pdimagearchive.org/images/0b92

    #buddha #crosses #orientalism #buddhism #allegory #shields #art #publicdomain

  2. A cis white gay man was perfect casting for a villain like The Analyst who functions as middle-management in a story like The Matrix: Resurrections about how authoritarian power structures recruit marginalized individuals to help sustain their oppression of marginalized groups.

    gawker.com/culture/whats-up-wi

    #transmisogyny #transphobia #gendercritical #terf #terfs #matrix #thematrix #matrixresurrections #thematrixresurrections #bigotry #marginalization #oppression #powerstructures #allegory