every so often I think about the Western academic who was a staunch supporter of the Khmer Rouge and denier of their atrocities, who then went on a trip to interview Pol Pot and got murdered by the Khmer Rouge a few hours later.
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a perfectly pleasant person who just had a vision of the world in his head that was almost 180 degrees from reality, and never let empirical experience get in the way.https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2010/jan/10/malcolm-caldwell-pol-pot-murder …
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Misread this as Malcolm Gladwell for a second and was filled with a radiant joy
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