Johnny Flynn, the 43-year-old actor cast as Lucius Malfoy in HBO's upcoming Harry Potter series, told an interviewer that every private school in Britain should be destroyed, a remark rooted in his own boarding school days but carrying a familiar whiff of elite hypocrisy. Flynn made the comments in an interview with Radio Times while […] The post HBO's new Lucius Malfoy says private schools should be 'burnt to the ground' appeared first on American Almanac .
Johnny Flynn, the 43-year-old actor cast as Lucius Malfoy in HBO's upcoming Harry Potter series, told an interviewer that every private school in Britain should be destroyed, a remark rooted in his own boarding school days but carrying a familiar whiff of elite hypocrisy. Flynn made the comments in an interview with Radio Times while promoting the second season of the Paramount+ crime drama MobLand and discussing his approach to the villainous Malfoy patriarch. The South African-born British actor, who attended the Pilgrims' School, a cathedral school in Winchester, England, on a music scholarship as a young child, described his time there as deeply damaging. He wants the entire institution abolished. Not reformed, not improved, razed. "I…Open
Condescension has always been an effective sales strategy for the politically naive. Wrap radical ideology in the language of justice, present the speakers as virtuous defenders of the powerless, and enough people will overlook the obvious contradiction. Jim Jones perfected the method decades ago, preaching racial equality, social justice, and communal living while consolidating absolute […] The post Born into Privilege, Preaching Revolution appeared first on StoneZone .
Condescension has always been an effective sales strategy for the politically naive. Wrap radical ideology in the language of justice, present the speakers as virtuous defenders of the powerless, and enough people will overlook the obvious contradiction. Jim Jones perfected the method decades ago, preaching racial equality, social justice, and communal living while consolidating absolute power and leading nearly a thousand of his followers to their deaths with a cyanide-laced grape drink. Fidel Castro followed a related path, born into relative privilege, he wrapped revolutionary expropriation in the language of justice and the people. This pattern of inherited security and radical rhetoric is consistent, only the branding changes. But…Open
Dr. Abdul El-Sayed’s victory in the Democrats’ U.S. Senate primary in Michigan last Tuesday was the latest sign of an emerging kingmaker in U.S. politics—a […] Source
Joe condemns Democratic lawmakers for declining to distance themselves from members of the far-left over controversial views surrounding Hamas' Oct. 7 attacks on Israel. He says on Morning Joe that Democrats are “once again fumbling the football on the 2-yard line” with midterm elections right around the corner.
By M.B. Mathews The Democrat party has been eaten by communists, but too many conservatives, whether from defeatism or disliking Trump, are willing to let the communists win.
