• TheLepidopterists [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    5 months ago

    I’m going to be real, I don’t really understand what happened after Tito died other than it was a very violent race war and then the US started bombing cities and blew up a Chinese embassy on purpose.

    But I understand that Parenti supported the Serbians pretty heavily and most liberals at least say that they’re the ones who were doing a genocide.

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      5 months ago

      But I understand that Parenti supported the Serbians pretty heavily and most liberals at least say that they’re the ones who were doing a genocide

      Wrong. Maybe do read his book. He didn’t took the side of Serbs any more than proving that the western propaganda blaming Serbs for everything was false.

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        5 months ago

        This feels like splitting semantic hairs. Regardless of the truth of the matter, if the prevailing wisdom is that a group committed genocide and you’re are arguing that they didn’t then I don’t see how you aren’t supporting them?

        I’m not trying to demonize Parenti here, I think he’s great.

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          Parenti does not claim Bosniak Serbs did not comitted genocide, ffs why so many people just parrot this outright liberal take instead of actually reading the book?