{"id":47085,"date":"2019-07-05T12:59:59","date_gmt":"2019-07-05T17:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=47085"},"modified":"2019-07-05T13:00:06","modified_gmt":"2019-07-05T18:00:06","slug":"good-guys-and-bad-guys-are-a-hollywood-illusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=47085","title":{"rendered":"\u201cGood Guys\u201d And \u201cBad Guys\u201d Are A Hollywood Illusion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2019\/07\/05\/good-guys-and-bad-guys-are-a-hollywood-illusion\/\">\u201cGood Guys\u201d And \u201cBad Guys\u201d Are A Hollywood Illusion<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/medium-1-4.jpg?fit=800%2C421&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you have spent literally any time arguing against western imperialism in any public forum, you have had the experience of being accused of \u201csupporting\u201d one of said imperialism\u2019s targets. If you argue against regime change interventionism in Syria, you\u2019ll get accused of being an \u201cAssadist\u201d or \u201cAssad apologist\u201d. If you argue against regime change interventionism in Iran, you\u2019ll you\u2019ll get people saying that you \u201csupport the Mullahs\u201d. Enter into any debate of sufficient liveliness and it\u2019s only a matter of minutes before it happens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There was&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/D-iWUosUIAATlkl.png\">a meme<\/a>&nbsp;going around at the height of the most recent failed coup attempt in Venezuela depicting a white, pink-haired socialist placing their hand over the mouth of a dark-skinned Venezuelan and saying \u201cACKSHUALLY, MADURO IS THE GOOD GUY\u201d. Proponents of the Trump administration\u2019s attempts to topple the Venezuelan government would share this meme in online debates with anti-imperialists as a way of accusing them of whitesplaining to Venezuelans that they should support an evil dictator who is oppressing them. The idea being, of course, to silence those dastardly socialists using the socially progressive value system they claim to uphold. Checkmate, leftists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/D-iWUosUIAATlkl.png?resize=480%2C338&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are obviously a number of things that are wrong with this meme, including\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gregpalast.com\/in-venezuela-white-supremacy-is-a-key-to-trump-coup\/\">the skin pigmentation of the average Guaido supporter<\/a>, the implication that all Venezuelans oppose Maduro, and the suggestion that only white western leftists oppose the Trump administration\u2019s attempts to install a puppet regime in the nation with the largest proven oil reserves on the planet. But the dumbest thing about it is the implication that someone who opposes US regime change interventionism could only be doing so because they believe that Nicol\u00e1s Maduro is a \u201cgood guy\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cGood Guys\u201d And \u201cBad Guys\u201d Are A Hollywood Illusion If you have spent literally any time arguing against western imperialism in any public forum, you have had the experience of being accused of \u201csupporting\u201d one of said imperialism\u2019s targets. If you argue against regime change interventionism in Syria, you\u2019ll get accused of being an \u201cAssadist\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[26211,17039,26210,26209,26212,5855],"class_list":["post-47085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-bad-gusy","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-good-guys","tag-good-vs-bad","tag-good-vs-evil","tag-western-imperialism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47085"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47086,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47085\/revisions\/47086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}