Thread by @rosendo_joe

Desmond Tutu deserves to be remembered for the things he got right, but also for things he got badly wrong. I elaborated on some in a piece I wrote in 2015

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In 1987, Desmond Tutu was asked what Ronald Reagan should do about apartheid South Africa. Tutu’s response was “Do what you are doing in Nicaragua"...
Did Tutu really want the US government to organize and fund terrorists to kill tens of thousands of innocent people....

In an op-ed in the Spanish newspaper El Pais, Tutu equated Leopoldo Lopez, a jailed Venezuelan opposition leader, to Martin Luther King and the Venezuelan government under Nicoalas Maduro to apartheid South Africa....

And why, in 2013, would Desmond Tutu have teamed up with a reprehensible NGO like UN Watch to attack Cuba? UN Watch...said the Gaza flotilla activists who were murdered by Israeli commandos in 2010 were part of a “terror flotilla”.

....basis for declaring Paya’s death is to be “suspicious” appears extremely thin. If Desmond Tutu investigated the case thoroughly and concluded otherwise then why would he not raise the issue independently rather than stand with vulgar apologists for Israeli apartheid?

Tutu totally swallowed and propagated the US government line on #Haiti after the 2004 coup that US troops perpetrated.

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From the BBC article:

"Archbishop Desmond Tutu today urged the South African Government to think twice before accepting ousted Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide if he claimed political asylum there"

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Archbishop Tutu said: “I would have hoped that he [Aristide] had gone anywhere but South Africa...”

Aristide was the democratically elected Presient of #Haiti who had just been kidnapped by US troops!