When you are empire you write pages upon pages about nuking a place and use words like "interesting" and "favorite" - no moral quandaries.https://twitter.com/wellerstein/status/1027546489302798337 …
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1. I'm a historian. I write pages upon pages about lots of things that happened in the past. It's literally my job. I wonder what you're prefer the alternative to be — ignoring things? 2. "Interesting" means "worth studying, thinking about, looking at." Not "good."
3. I said the piece I wrote was my "favorite piece of writing." It was a very intentionally-written piece, one in which I try to paint a picture that doesn't moralize much, but nonetheless makes a moral argument. I think it came off well. Read it before you judge it.
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4. If you think I'm trying to glorify, trivialize, or even justify the bombing of Nagasaki, then you clearly aren't reading closely enough. I know it's easy to be trivial and flip on Twitter — I've done it myself at times — but it's not the road to understanding.
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thank you for your notes. I indeed read the piece before tweeting, and found it fascinating. still, there is much unease to be noted in how the death of us non-westerners is talked about, too casually.
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