--- Luke Benjamin Weiger <lweiger at umich.edu> wrote:
>
> Justin wrote:
>
> > No, they are unintended victims of Progress,
> > regrettable, but Omlettes, Eggs, all that sort of
> > thing. Same as the victims of Brad's ideal air war
> and
> > comprador subfascist client armies in Vietnam and
> > Korea would have been.
>
> I'm sure the current residents of South Korea are
> happy that their fates
> don't mirror those of their neighbors to the North.
>
> -- Luke
>
> These are what Chomsky calls
> > Benign Massacres. The Ukraine, 1930-32, like the
> > Democratic Kampuchea disaster, was a Nefarious
> > Massacre. Therefore Brad can be puzzled by (and
> ignore
> > the former sort, because it doesn't fit into his
> > framework of outrage), i.e, the deaths due to
> Benign
> > events, while feeling angry about Nefarious ones,
> and
> > morally superior to those who point out the double
> > standard, whom his equipment does not permit him
> to
> > read as other than as apologetics for mass murder
> > (Nefarious). Free markersa nd Western policies are
> > NEVER systematically responsible for Nefarious
> events.
> > That is an axiom. jks
>
>
>
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