Can someone explain this to me? Is it true that Unruhe once had a video where he argued that the victims of the September 11 attacks "had it coming" or something? I believe Holla Forums mass-reported it and took it down, so the vid probably doesn't exist anymore.
We're talking about a bunch of office clerks getting blown up by jihadists. Why would they have it coming? How would a third-worldist/maoist defend Unruhe's position?
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He was just being edgy. Sure, the people working in the buildings didn't deserve it but America as an entity had it coming 100%. Most people in the WTC would work for international trade and finance anyway, so they are direct perpetrators of Third World exploitation and the existence of labor aristocracy, so I can see where he's coming from.
So the bombings constitute a sort of symbolic comeuppance? Something that was going to happen to America sooner or later?
Wish there was some kind of transcript of what Unruhe said in the video.
Well, the US destroyed a secular communist Afghanistan with imported Mujahideen, and then threw it under the bus after they served their interests. Obviously eventually a boomerang is going to hit you. I think Žižek called this "divine violence".
Interesting. I might look up what Zizek has to sniff about it.
Third-Woldists are scum.
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Roo believes anyone who is physically living in an imperialist country de facto benefits from imperialism.
They don't?
"True enough, they were civilians of a sort. But innocent? Gimme a break. They formed a technocratic corps at the very heart of America's global financial empire – the "mighty engine of profit" to which the military dimension of U.S. policy has always been enslaved – and they did so both willingly and knowingly. Recourse to "ignorance" – a derivative, after all, of the word "ignore" – counts as less than an excuse among this relatively well-educated elite. To the extent that any of them were unaware of the costs and consequences to others of what they were involved in – and in many cases excelling at – it was because of their absolute refusal to see."
Holy shit, this is the real deal.