dasakuryo:

Because I didn’t want to hijack  this great post  by @atheistj but I do believe there’s another reading that needs to be put out there

Cassian
Andor, played by a Mexican actor, saying to Jyn Erso, a white character, played
by a white British woman

 "We
don’t all have the luxury of deciding when and where to care about something.“

Is
the greatest political symbolic moment of 2016.

Cassian
Andor, played by Diego Luna, Mexican, a Latin American, saying to Jyn Erso, a
white character, played by a white British woman,  British, prime example of imperialism and
imperialism intervention 

“We
don’t all have the luxury of deciding when and where to care about something.”

Is
the greates political symbolic moment in 2016.

A
Latin American with a thick accent, is saying to a British, historical allies
of the USA during the Cold War,

“We
don’t all have the luxury of deciding when and where to care about something.”

 Because
the USA turned a blind eye on the atrocities committed by the Latin American
dictatorships throughout Latin America in the 20^th century, because
those very same dictatorships and totalitarian governments were functional to
the USA and its allies to avoid the spread of Communism and leftist ideas, because
those very same dictatorships were either aided or orchestrated by the USA (ask
the Chileans), because the very same CIA taught torture methods that the
Argentinean and Brazilian military used on its own citizens-

Because
USA orchestrated the Plan Cóndor (Condor Plan) to subjugate Latin American
countries to their will, because they’re also responsible for the bloodsheds
and the brutal dictatorships Latin America endured, because they had the
complicity of its political allies-

Because
they rise in history as heroes and defenders of peace and democracy, when all
Latin Americans know they conveniently say after all had ended that they would
never support a dictatorship government. And the world has just taken their
word for it.

Because the USA and its allies do have the luxury of
deciding when and where to care about something, provided that it’s useful to
their interests.