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Chairman Mao (left) with the genocidal Khmer Rouge leaders Pol Pot (center) and Ieng Sary, Beijing, China, 1975 (lemmy.world)
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[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 49 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

"It was just a meeting!"

"Whatabout the US???"

"Cambodian genocide didn't happen, or if it did it wasn't that bad, or if it was it's not a big deal, and if it is, it wasn't the Khmer Rouge's fault, or if it was their fault, they didn't mean to, or if they did mean to the ~~kulaks~~ intellectuals deserved it."

"Khmer Rouge were a CIA psyop, this is all Amerikkka's fault"

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

BANNED is how they respond to wrongthink

[–] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 year ago

Wait, I've seen this style of reaaoning before...

[–] cabbage@piefed.social 4 points 1 year ago

At least in Norway, Marxist Leninist publicly supported Pol Pot well into the 70s. I would bet on #2, with an added element of whataboutism taking about America's wars.