A chess champion in the Kasparov mold becomes a voice for democracy and launches an anti-Putin movement, yet he fights not to win but to lose — to be "suppressed, ignored, killed".
A chess champion in the Kasparov mold becomes a voice for democracy and launches an anti-Putin movement, yet he fights not to win but to lose to be "suppressed, ignored, killed".
In a show that focuses on what people can achieve when they ignore or kill their consciences, Jesse is the heartbreaking contrast: He can't elide or justify the things he's done, and that knowledge is slowly destroying him.
They stress that Armenian militants were rebelling against the crumbling Ottoman Empire, and discount or ignore the killing of hundreds of thousands of civilians after the abortive revolt.
At a time of heightened awareness and receptivity regarding race and black culture, it felt like Larry Wilmore was saying: "You can keep degrading us, keep ignoring or killing us, keep pretending that conversations about race will get us where we need to get, but you cannot take this.
He would have been ignored or killed off much sooner.
They would either laugh in my face, ignore me, or kill me.
Why do we ignore the civilians killed in American wars?
"Why do we ignore the civilians killed in American wars?," Washington Post, 6 January 2012.
The Nazis reportedly ignored orders to kill him out of respect, but it probably helped that they assumed he was a relative of Winston Churchill, which prompted them to send him to Berlin for interrogation.
