smoking ππ£π¦πΎπ with 'iluMore from my crappy history prof:
I don't think I could disagree more with this! IMO the biggest failure of the USSR was forcing a nationalist Russification over its borders, rather than acting as a true Union of multiple Republics
Great-Russian chauvinism replacing korenizatsiia under Stalin was probably the biggest mistake the Soviets made in the long run
Calling the Cheka a "terrorist police force" is an interesting choice of words. I'm obviously no fan of the Cheka but what is it about them that's singularly "terrorist"? Usually that kind of wording is reserved for non-state actors
Torn between being pleasantly surprised that he's recognizing the Armenian genocide at all, and suspecting that he's only doing it to further his trend of demonizing the Ottoman Empire for Islamophobia purposes
Like yeah 100% a horrific tragedy but do you have to keep saying "Islamist" with such emphasis when you talk about it
Low bar but glad that he's accurately saying that the British and French dividing up the former Ottoman Empire arbitrarily is a primary source of a lot of the present-day violence in the Middle East. I was honestly a little worried he would blame most of it on Islam
In the name of every Irishman go fuck yourself lol
Suggesting now that Jewish eyewitnesses to the Ukrainian famine are more important because they "cannot be accused of Ukrainian bias"... that strikes me as a little fucked up. It's a bit adjacent to dual-loyalty stuff, isn't it? Kind of arguing that Jewish Ukrainians weren't real Ukrainians? I don't think you should talk about them like that man.
oh fuck off. im not sorry you didn't get your theocratic ethnostate, and you shouldn't be whining about it in an intro history course. get over yourself.
he wants to blame the fags for the decline of Christian society so bad. you can feel it bursting at the seams
it's so funny that he's talking about like, extremely basic progressive politics from 50 years ago by calling it "awkward" and "shocking" compared to (implicitly better) Christian values. like dude this is just kind of the foundation of modern liberal ideology. this is the default for most of your students. even the centrist lib students would read this and think you sound like a 1950s reactionary.
oh shut the fuck up you know full well colonization was explicitly supported by the Catholic church. can't even let people decolonize themselves with giving all the credit to colonialists. fuck sakes
clown shoes, man. give indigenous philosophy some fuckin credit
communism was defeated by the spiritual power of the Pope. one can only lmao
why did the war drag on sir. who was funding and arming the mujahideen sir.
"reportedly"
oh so he full-on doesn't believe in climate change huh
ah, there's the "Islam is an existential threat to Europe" I was waiting for.
is that what happened, sir? the terrorists just popped up out of nowhere and the European troops started fighting them? no reasons behind those terrorists' existence?
sir I have a question. how did the Shah come to power in the first place. What did the US and UK do in 1953 to protect their oil interests sir
very interesting choice of examples here. nothing to say about the Ulster volunteers, the Italian neofascists, the Falangist terrorists against Spanish democratization, or Israeli paramilitaries like Kach? it seems like it's only terrorism if done by a leftist or a Muslim.
OK so the NATO coalition ousted the Taliban in 2001. Sure. Quick question, how did they get in power in the first place?
At least he's recognizing there were no WMDs in Iraq. Wasn't sure at this point.
Maybe this is just my anarchist sensitivities but I really don't think the ideology of ISIS is that concerned with the legitimacy of the Westphalian system. I mean for one the Muslim world was never even party to the Peace of Westphalia. Mostly though I think they're more concerned with the religious fundamentalism than the legitimacy of this or that philosophy of international law. If they're concerned with any system of nation-states it would be the American Empire, which *also* pretty much rejects the Westphalian system.
Classic rhetorical trick of listing a single event (Theo van Gogh's murder) and implying (but not saying outright) that this is evident of some greater trend.
Also yeah sure let's just say there were Africans and Arabs rioting but give no explanation. I'm sure it was just because that's what Africans and Arabs do; and not a response to racism, poverty, and the death of two teenagers in a police chase.