Serious question: how does Leon Wieseltier reconcile his moralizing about human rights with his friendship with Henry Kissinger?
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@HeerJeet Not justifying/but they share a very long history w/ the IRC & Leo Cherne (&also my socialist grandfather)https://twitter.com/dearsarah/status/697550538582286336 …Sarah Szalavitz added,
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@HeerJeet my grandfather, Aaron Levenstein, wrote a book on the history of the IRC, Escape to Freedom....which sets some of these origins up1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@HeerJeet (haven't read it in decades, but it offers the characters but leaves out the interesting/classified story, which are obvious now)1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@dearsarah Right, but IRC was how a lot of socialist & left-liberals got roped into supporting Vietnam intervention.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
@dearsarah Right but that still doesn't explain contradiction of LW's claim to love human rights with friendship with HK.
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