[lbo-talk] Hamid Dabashi on Iran

[Dennis Perrin]

> Well no kidding. I really don't see how that's relevant to how  Iranians 
> feel about their president being a Holocaust denier. It's one  thing to 
> deny your own country's crimes, especially recent ones; it's  another to 
> deny the well-established crimes of another country long ago.

Well, how many "educated" Americans know or care that their government 
essentially denies (or "overlooks") the well-established Armenian 
genocide -- not based on some crackpot belief, but for geopolitical 
purposes? Which is more "embarrassing": having a theocratic clown deny 
genocide, or having "educated" technocrats doing the same?

Dennis