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Originally Posted by nik-
It's borderline absolving with Chomsky imo.
The funny thing is the racism implied in it. These countries full of brown people are incapable of controlling their countries because of colonialism. We drew some bad lines in 1920 and now these people are just too dumb to do anything about it.
It's ridiculous.
There are many other places in the world the West ####ed up with colonialism who have gotten on their feet or are at least making progress.
The reason is a contrarian attitude to education fueled by extreme religion, not the big bad US and Israel.
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"Some people who were abused as children grow up just fine, so I don't see why all of them don't grow up fine."
Come on, man. Are we just going to ignore the effects of the Cold War and international power politics in various regions as well?