Why do liberals describe the victims of Suharto's mass slaughter as "alleged" Communists? http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/06/09/a-case-against-america/ …pic.twitter.com/c1Ex3sO9sE
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Looks like a standard hedge to me. Not all of the half million were actually communists, but all of them were alleged to be.
As a journalist I respect hedging, oft necessary for reasons of space. But here & elsewhere a few extra words could've fit.
Maybe so—I haven't read the full piece, just your snippet.
Maybe not in this individual instance, but cumulative effects of 70 yrs Cold War? Yes.
IOW the Cold War vilification of anything remotely Communist with no respect for regional political circumstances makes the trope.
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