Re: ML ALERT: Reopening Auschwitz – The Conspiracy To Stop Corbyn Archived Message
Posted by brooks on December 4, 2019, 1:15 am, in reply to "ML ALERT: Reopening Auschwitz – The Conspiracy To Stop Corbyn"
Excellent alert, though the conclusion seemed like a bit of a non-sequitur wrt the title and most of the piece. Not sure about this though: If we are serious about offering a moral calculus, then we should, of course, include the fact that Johnson would certainly support Trump in any future racist wars against Iran, Venezuela, or North Korea, whereas Corbyn would not. Why "racist wars"? Clinton would have been even more likely to wage them than Trump, but I doubt they'd be called racist wars in her case. And is there a particularly anti-Persian racism in the US? Except maybe among those who saw the ridiculous movie 300? These are imperialist operations against unacceptably independent nations and are about resources and control and needing external enemies, racism is barely a factor. The illegal war of aggression against Serbia by Bill Clinton wasn't a racist war, since the victims were caucasian. Racism might help fuel the wars, but it's not the salient feature by a long way and maybe a bit of a distraction.
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