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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
The West are monstrous oppressors. Ergo anyone fighting the West* is struggling against oppression. They may go overboard sometimes, but they're fighting the good fight.
Or so the thinking goes. But when your whole ideology boils down to Bad Daddy, maybe 'thinking' gives too much credit.
* These people are typically too dim or dishonest to acknowledge that Islamic radicals are carrying out terrorism in the Phillipines, Indonesia, India, Nigeria, and other countries that have nothing to do with George W. Bush or Israel.
Edit: And by the far left, I'm talking the Chomskyite Left. The people who see the world strictly through a prism of America/Israel and the people they oppress.
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Man, you seem like an intelligent dude, but a lot of your posts on the "new left" demonstrate a clear inability to actually comprehend the central theses of many of their arguments, and you continue to hammer on strawmen that you create.