People who love and defend a government are creating parental figures out of the state instead of growing up and taking their stand as mature individuals.
People who love and defend a government are creating parental figures out of the state instead of growing up and taking their stand as mature individuals.
There is authoritarian apologia elsewhere on the blog so I think it’s accurate.At minimum hypocritical.Apologia for any state is idiotic.Edit: I thought I saw something along these lines from the author but I can’t find it anymore so I’m going to retract this to be safe.
I skimmed through the ~50 articles published this year and they were all anti imperialist pieces focused on the US & Israel. Not defending authoritarianism.
Hmm I clicked some link and I thought I saw some apologia about China but now I can’t find it. It does seem to be mainly criticism of the US and Israel which is always fair game considering current circumstances.
As an American its a strange and uncomfortable to ponder that maybe China was/is not as bad as I always categorized it as since Tienanmin. More research definitely needed.
That’s an oversimplification of the truth, not defending authoritarianism. It’s not denying or minimizing China’s actions in Xinjiang or '89. It’s not praising the censorship or arbitrary detention.
Finally the end of the matryoshka doll.
Yeah I think that was the one, it’s not love but I’d call it apologia.
To me it’s so much weirder to spend energy defending a distant authoritarian government that you have no connection to whatsoever than your own. Both are stupid, but people are indoctrinated to be sycophants for their own authoritarian government so I kinda get it even though I wish it was otherwise.