You Are What You Watch
Anhar Karim |
TEDxPrincetonU
• November 2017
Anhar Karim loves watching movies and tv shows. But beyond looking to be entertained for an hour or two, he opens his eyes to a critical reading of everything he sees. In particular, Anhar has researched and studied the depiction of Muslim characters on screen. Muslims on screen or quite plentiful, but they are also all sociopaths, murderers, and terrorists. But that doesn't really change people's minds, right? Everyone knows the fact that the vast majority of Muslims are not terrorists and an hour of Homeland won't change a thing. Anhar presents you with his argument for why that might not necessarily be true and urges you to become a responsible consumer of fiction entertainment.