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In reply to the discussion: The Rise of a ‘Democratic’ Fascism (John Pilger) [View all]Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)It's easy to dismiss the source when it counters your worldview...Go do your own research and find someone "reputable" to say what a great guy Gaddafi was...
I'm not talking about "leaders", (since last I checked, Obama isn't whitewashing Gaddafi's legacy)...I'm talking about PILGER who intentionally ignored his atrocities to make a cheap political point; and which you made even worse by laughably trying to argue that Gaddafi is "better" than Karimov because Tutu, Mandela and Chavez shook his hand once or twice...
The sword cuts both ways -- Either Gaddafi was a good guy in the past up until his death, or he was an evil despot in the past up to his death...You and Pilger don't get to change Gaddafi's "stripes" whenever it suits you for the current argument of the moment...If Gaddafi was a GOOD guy, or even a not-so-bad guy, then I would hope for sake of consistency Pilger was writing the same positive things back in the 70s and 80s, and I would hope your assessment of that regime is just as optimistic as it was when you joined DU back in '08...
Pilger has had a stellar career, but that doesn't mean he isn't immune to the "Useful Idiot Myopia" which has claimed Robert Parry among other favored commentators on DU...
Well, let me reset this a little...
Please...Just stop...I happen to like you, and I'm giving you the opportunity to back out of this argument while saving face...I don't want the DU I used to know to descend to a place nutty enough where posters are *defending* Gaddafi, because in that case they might as well merge us with InfoWars right now...I don't want the left I used to know to get so binary and absolutist in their anti-interventionist opposition to U.S. foreign policy that Gaddafi, Putin, and Assad become retroactive "heroes" for standing up against 'American Hegemony'...
It's up to you if you want to respond or not, but I'm leaving this thread...Adieu