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Lol good point. I’ve been fortunate enough to never have met a real unironic Pol Pot supporter so I’ve never really thought about them.
As for Nazbols, at the risk of “no true scotsman” I don’t consider them leftists. Much in the same way that if I smear a layer of shit in a ham sandwich, most people cease to see it as a ham sandwich and see it as a shit sandwich. Nazbols themselves are the only people trying to make the “ham and shit sandwich” a thing.
fortunate enough to never have met a real unironic Pol Pot supporter
Noam Chomsky.
https://www.mekong.net/cambodia/chomsky.htm
“Future victims of imperial savagery will not thank us for assisting in the campaign to restore the public to apathy and conformism so that the subjugation of the weak can continue without annoying domestic impediments.”
Or were the Khmer really “victims” at all? Chomsky and Herman advance a number of arguments that imply that they weren’t. “…how can it be that that a population so oppressed by a handful of fanatics does not rise up and overthrow them?”(69) It is not unlikely, in Chomsky and Herman’s view, that “the regime has a modicum of support among the peasants.”(70)
Chomsky and Herman attempt to downplay the significance of child labor by claiming that “vocational training” for twelve-year-old children is “not generally regarded as an atrocity in a poor peasant society.”(90) The argument is a waste of ink. No amount of scholarly doublespeak can conceal the fact that child slavery is not “vocational training.”
Malcolm Caldwell, a British academic, was even more enthusiastic about the Khmer Rouge. He travelled to Cambodia to meet the objects of his admiration and was promptly and mysteriously murdered by them, joining up to three million other victims.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2010/jan/10/malcolm-caldwell-pol-pot-murder
Malcolm Caldwell, a British academic, was even more enthusiastic about the Khmer Rouge. He travelled to Cambodia to meet the objects of his admiration and was promptly and mysteriously murdered by them
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