And as an addition to the previous post, here is an example of typical pseudo-progressive hypocrisy. A blogger rants and raves against the horrible, evil, ultra-conservative media and then says the following (emphasis mine):
Terrorism, on the other hand, especially any that we can tie to Islam, has a built-in narrative of “The Other” onto which we can all immediately latch. This was most obvious when the identities of the two bombers were released on Friday and the mainstream media took to calling them “ethnic Chechens,” focusing mainly on their ties to that particularly restless part of Russia and very little on the 10 years they spent living in the US in the post-9/11 era.
Wow, that is so dismissive and insulting that I had to reread the statement three times to make sure I wasn’t imagining it. According to this logic, the US was “that particularly restless part of England,” Mexico was “that particularly restless part of Spain,” and Palestine is “that particularly restless part of Israel.”
Even the most aggressive among the Russian nationalists do not claim that Chechnya is a part of Russia. Chechnya is part of the Russian Federation and it used to be part of the Russian Empire. If you don’t see the difference, consider whether you see a difference between England and the British Empire.
And the reason why Chechnya is so “particularly restless” (which is a very infantilizing way to speak of a country, by the way) is that for over 300 years it has been brutalized by the colonial aggressor. As recently as the 1940s, the entire population of the country was displaced and deported. Countless people were murdered in the process. As a result, the pesky Chechens became kinda restless.
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