"Pro-Serb-Nationalism"/"Pro-Milosevic" Baiting and the Death of Yugoslavia

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

It has been my experience on this list that those who do not swallow the
imperial thesis that "Serbs are the worst rapists, ethnic cleansers, and
organizers of genocide" have been repeatedly characterized as
"pro-Serb-nationalism" and/or "pro-Milosevic." I have no probelm refuting
such characterization, but the frequency with which such epithets are used
reminds me of red-baiting rhetoric; only this time, you are not baited for
being a red, you are baited for being pro-Serb or pro-Milosevic. Completely
misleading, not to mention quite tiresome.

I simply note here that this "Pro-Serb-Nationalism"/"Pro-Milosevic" Baiting
has happened less often on three other left-political-elists I'm subbed to.
The difference does say something about this list's subscriber demographics.

I also add that even in the left imagination and language, Yugoslavia (a
multi-ethnic country) died a long time ago, and only "Serbia" remains in
its place, though not all who live in "Serbia" are Serbs and not all who
live in "Kosovo" are Albanians. This language use reveals that despite
their superficial anti-nationalist rhetoric, they have actually bought into
the imperial strategy of carving up Yugoslavia through nationalism.

Yoshie