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This was the “if you can fog glass and are anti-communist we support you” era. A lot of the bad stuff from the 20th century stems from hysterical overreaction
by api 4y ago
This was the “if you can fog glass and are anti-communist we support you” era.
A lot of the bad stuff from the 20th century stems from hysterical overreaction to communism.
- axlee 4y agoI mean communist propagation led to the Khmer Rouge, Cuba or North Korea, so I'm not sure the alternative was better.
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- api 4y agoThere were certainly awful communists. Problem is we supported a lot of anti-communists who were no better. Also I don’t think you can draw moral equivalence between Castro and Pol Pot. One of these was far far worse than the other.
- hectorlorenzo 4y agoFierce anti-communism led to Franco, Pinochet, and Osama bin Laden. We can call it even.
- anthk 4y agoCommunists fought the Khmer Rouge, and these Khmers were backed by the US first.
- dweekly 4y ago"The enemy of my enemy is my friend" might be one of the most common and yet painfully misguided pillars of statecraft. To wit: this is a natural outcome of a belief that there are Good Guys and Bad Guys because in that case "good == !!good". But the world is much more in thrall to Interests, which have higher dimensionality than a singular axis of Goodness, and besides, very few people (and fewer states) self-identify as "evil". See also: "Are We The Baddies?"