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Also calling it anti-leftist is just poor framing, paramilitar organizations have very close ties with the right-wing politicians here.
by Obeehhh 2y ago
Also calling it anti-leftist is just poor framing, paramilitar organizations have very close ties with the right-wing politicians here.
- dventimi 2y ago> "Paramilitary organizations have very close ties with the far-right politicians here." Does that make it more likely those paramilitary organizations are on the left, or on the right?
- digging 2y agoI think they're implying that anti-leftist isn't the same as far-right. A centrist could in theory function as an anti-leftist.
- dventimi 2y agoAre there anti-leftist militarists in Colombia who are centrist?
- digging 2y agoI have no idea.
- dventimi 2y agoTake a guess.
- trust_bt_verify 2y agoYes.
- dventimi 2y agoWas Uribe center-left or far-right? It seems like was both at different times. In any case, viewed by this outsider from thousands of miles away, Colombian politics looks fluid enough that labels lose distinction. The one constant seems to be U.S. policy.
- trust_bt_verify 2y agoOk… no then? I was just trying to save the original poster from being badgered in bad faith with questions like, ‘take a guess’.
- Obeehhh 2y agoYeah, but also anti-comunist propaganda from the cold war is still prominent, so when they say anti-leftist it feels like a justification. I'm sorry this is not my main language.
- digging 2y agoIt's fair to call that out. Anti-communist propaganda is a problem still in the US as well.
- HideousKojima 2y agoIs the mountain of skulls really propaganda?
- dventimi 2y ago> when they say anti-leftist it feels like a justification I wrote "anti-leftist" to be descriptive, not normative. If it wasn't clear, I aim to criticize American policy, not to praise it.
- lazide 2y agoUh, aren’t the paramilitaries explicitly targeting leftists? As in ‘let’s go out and murder some of those leftists’? What else could you call anti-leftist but that?
- dventimi 2y agoHonestly, I was confused by that myself.