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No it’s like responding to an article about the founding fathers with an article discussing General Mattis. Not relevant but not that irrelevant plus an intere
by edgyquant 6y ago
No it’s like responding to an article about the founding fathers with an article discussing General Mattis. Not relevant but not that irrelevant plus an interesting piece of recent history.
- Apocryphon 6y agoLet's compromise and say it's like an article about Eddie Gallagher. Blahyi is a particularly sensationalistic and appalling character who gained infamy in the West thanks to one of VICE News' earliest documentaries. An interesting story, yes, but also tabloidized by VICE's characteristic edginess, and not really a major leader in the Liberian Civil War. Most Americans don't know much about Africa, let alone Liberia. Our perceptions about it are often only informed by Nicolas Cage's Lord of War and the aforementioned VICE documentary, the latter which has led General Butt Naked to become somewhat of a meme. Yet Liberia is a country that the U.S. specifically was involved in its founding and development. It's rather unfair to the country to have one of its worst villains from one of its most traumatic eras be Americans' only impression of it. An unrepresentative association that dishonors a nation.