A German foundation has said it will no longer be awarding a prize for political thinking to a leading Russian-American journalist after criticizing as “unacceptable” a recent essay by the writer in which they made a comparison between Gaza and a Jewish ghetto in Nazi-occupied Europe.
Yeah seems like he wanted to kick the can and make a lot of noise but it does get people to talk about you.
I wonder if it’s braver and better to willingly shove away the pointless reward to try and get people to talk about a subject you care about.
Are you sure Masha Gessen is a man?
Nope. They use Gessen’s name the entire time in the article instead of a pronoun and I had a very androgynous photo to go off of and I may have misgendered them.
They are non-binary, FYI. It’s not an accident that Gessen isn’t gendered in the article.