He wasn't sufficiently communist or anti-American for the Penns and Sarandons of the world.
He wasn't sufficiently communist or anti-American for the Penns and Sarandons of the world.
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Congratulations America
So some Turkish professor was complaining on a Facebook group for political scientists that US border patrol was rude to her (fair enough). Another Turkish professor replied that she suspects it's because of resentment over the actions of the Ottoman Empire. I kid you not (both are professors in British universities). What kind of crap do they teach in Turkey?
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Usually elites are too condescending to assume government functionaries don't know about world history.
Except in the previous sentence she complained that the border people told her that Turkish was like Arabic, which is is why she was stopped. So these people don't know the difference between Turkish and Arabic, but know about ancient Turkish history.
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Turkish education in hard science is halfway decent in the better schools and universities. Other than that it all takes place in a parallel universe. You have no idea the kind of nonsense people in Turkey take to be proven facts. Everything is based on a deeply felt victimhood; Turks have no friends in the world but the Turks themselves. Turkey is not the first and richest country in the world because of outside machinations. Depending on the particular paranoia of the speaker the source of those machinations can be, Europeans in general, the Brits in particular, Americans, Jews, and then some puppets of the first 4 categories.
Congratulations America
Hope is the denial of reality
I've heard. Pretty much every major policy still gets justified by Sevres.
Hope is the denial of reality
At least it's something the Islamists and nationalists agree on.
Hope is the denial of reality