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Bruno Maçães @MacaesBruno
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Sometimes difficult to tell which news come from China and which from the the West. Convergence of a different sort. “Editor fired for giving platform to unacceptable views”
nytimes.com/2018/09/19/art…
Buruma of course was fired not for inappropriate conduct but for inappropriate thoughts
Buruma sounds so contrite, so miserable, so apologetic - in Maoist China he might well be rehabilitated, any chance it could happen in America?
vn.nl/reaction-ian-b…
In the two interviews on the matter Buruma keeps repeating, “I had an idea I wanted to debate,” “the idea occurred to me...” he seems to think that will exculpate him. And his accusers say, that is the problem, why did you have the idea, where did it come from?
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