Cenk Uygur
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Actress Writes BS Memoir About Year In Zambia
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July 7, 2016
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10:06Now PlayingScottish actress Louise Linton recently wrote a memoir about her time in Zambia. The problem is it seems like she made most of it up. Also, racism. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian, hosts of The Young Turks, break it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
"A Scottish actress is trying her hardest to promote a book about living in Zambia for a few months in the late 1990s, an experience she describes as a harrowing, war-torn “nightmare.” It was all going fine until Zambians began reading her account and pointed out that in addition to being a pile of racist and laughably out-of-touch white savior tropes, her story evidently makes no goddamn factual sense.
Louise Linton, who has not appeared in anything you’ve ever heard of, wrote a book that came out in April called In Congo’s Shadow, a portion of which was excerpted in The Telegraph on July 1. It is... really something. Linton makes herself a “central character” in the Congolese civil war, which did not happen in Zambia. Linton has an account of hiding in the jungle from “the rebels,” whom she assumes would be particularly interested in her, because she’s so pretty…”*
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