A summarized version of this article: "I'm complicit in the war that costed the lives of millions because I distorted facts but I now wonder what the ramifications of my actions were? Anyways I have white privilege so who cares really, just be thankful I'm being honest"https://twitter.com/BRRubin/status/1205852384943054849 …
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are knowingly complicit, their realizations and deep thoughts aren’t going to – to use your words – serve great public benefit. They need to give public apologies and be actively engaged in undoing the damages they’ve done.
This an important thread. Op eds like this make me want to tear my hair out. A lot of people knew, took the paychecks, took the promotions and now, by acknowledging their part in things, are taking bylines. Theirs is not the perspective I want to hear. It should not be privileged
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We should be calling this out. And yet, in the isolated echo chamber of US policy, this is still a voice of dissent. Like
@and_huh_what says, there's a battle over the narrative of Afghanistan w/in the US. That narrative matters. As much as it makes me want to bang my head -
into a desk (you knew! couldn't you have taken a stand when it might have mattered most?) -- it still matters that they are speaking up. That might be the first step on a long road to actual accountability and acknowledgment, like
@mebtikar, is rightly calling for. But man the - Näytä vastaukset
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