Chomsky on media/Pol Pot

[Brad De Long]

RE:
>the most extreme accusations were
>adopted and proclaimed with a great
>show of indignation over Communist
>atrocities, the integrity of which
>can be measured by comparison to the
>reaction to phase I of the genocide
>and U.S. responsibility for it;

Can I say that there is something really weird about claiming that person
x's condemnation of genocide y lacks "integrity" because person x did not
sufficiently condemn genocide z?

Genocide is a bad thing, no matter who it is done by, no matter where, no
matter when. Condemnations of acts of genocide are always welcome. They
never lack "integrity."

Those who condemn the Nazi slaughter of Jews do not lack "integrity" if
they have not sufficiently condemned the slaughter of the Australian
aborigines. Those who condemn Israeli policy in the occupied territories of
the West Bank and Gaza lack "integrity" because they have spent
insufficient time condemning the failure of the PLO to remove those clauses
of its charter calling for the abolition of Israel...

Brad DeLong