US-Russian journalist Masha Gessen won Germany’s Hannah Arendt prize for political thought

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.

  • @[email protected]English
    -17•11 months ago

    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.

      • @[email protected]English
        1•11 months ago

        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.

        • @[email protected]English
          2•11 months ago

          They are non-binary, FYI. It’s not an accident that Gessen isn’t gendered in the article.

          • @[email protected]English
            1•11 months ago

            Got it… Really wish we had a good way of representing that because it’s gonna take a bit before people stop defaulting to use of pronouns even with best intentions