Grateful to @JoinPersuasion & @Yascha_Mounk for publishing my short essay on the history & culture of historical revisionism among Western “anti-imperialists”. A timely intervention, I hope, on debates & discourses about true “international solidarity”. persuasion.community/p/a-sorry-excu…
“There is no shortage of prominent left-wing academics, journalists, artists and activists who have sought to twist the historical record concerning atrocities and the regimes that perpetrated them.” persuasion.community/p/a-sorry-excu…
“The far left vision of foreign affairs is fogged by conspiratorial accounts...all events embody a simple split: on one side, the American empire and its corrupt proxies; on the other side, noble adversaries, who by opposing the U.S. are progressive.” persuasion.community/p/a-sorry-excu…
“Another troubling trend is that the far left and the far right find common cause in their view of conflicts from Syria to Bosnia to Ukraine. What these seeming opposites share is a commitment to dismantling the liberal-democratic order.” persuasion.community/p/a-sorry-excu…
“Those committed to progressive values must never tolerate those who downplay tyranny. Salvaging the liberal-democratic project means standing with persecuted peoples, whether in Xinjiang, in Syria, in Belarus, or elsewhere.” persuasion.community/p/a-sorry-excu…
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