As the title says, who is Henry Kissinger?
I read this from Wikipedia:
“Kissinger pioneered the policy of détente with the Soviet Union, orchestrated an opening of relations with China, engaged in what became known as shuttle diplomacy in the Middle East to end the Yom Kippur War, and negotiated the Paris Peace Accords, which ended American involvement in the Vietnam War. He has also been associated with controversial policies, such as the U.S. bombing of Cambodia during the Vietnam War, U.S. involvement in the 1973 Chilean military coup, a “green light” to Argentina’s military junta for their Dirty War, and U.S. support for Pakistan during the Bangladesh Liberation War despite a genocide being perpetrated by Pakistan.”
It sounds like he was a bad guy, but I know there’s more to the story than that with the collective hate I see for him here on Lemmy.
Then just ask without the pretension that were all a bunch of biased ideologues.
From reading back over their post and the one reply they had in the thread, I don’t think op was trying to convey that everyone here is a biased ideologue. I honestly think they were just trying to acknowledge that the platform collectively has a shared perspective on Kissenger, since thats relevant context when asking about where that shared perspective comes from
They may have explained that a little awkwardly (its kind of an awkward thing to find good words and sentence structure for 🤷) but I don’t think there’s any malice from op, just a sense that they’re out of the loop on why everyone else thinks what they think
It’s still intellectually lazy. If the assumption is that everyone is wrong, go research for yourself.
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