"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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[-] sooper_dooper_roofer@hexbear.net 31 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

mayos like this really be translating all the text from every single non-european culture and gatekeeping every single english-language Wikipedia article and then you wonder why there are unsourced quotes about Genghis Khan being white lmao

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