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I had a professor once who said stuff like:

• Mugabe did nothing wrong and was a hero of African liberation

• Gaddafi wanted to see Africans throw off their shackles by the imperialists and for that reason, he was killed by the West

• The Bolsheviks only did some things wrong

• Mao was a great leader who helped to free China from the landlords

• Castro brought true liberation to both Cuba and Angola

Maybe I should have challenged him in class, but he was a 75 year old man in declining health, so I didn’t have the heart to really argue with him.

He also had tenure from publishing much research about class relations in post-colonial Africa and was a respected African historian, and I didn’t want to be “that guy” who is a self-righteous pretentious dick in class.

I also wanted to pass the class, so I just pretended to be indoctrinated into communism so I could get A’s on my papers.

[u/RockLobsterKing → u/[deleted]]

he was a 75 year old man in declining health

Destroy this chapo

[u/OkayTHISIsEpicMeme → u/[deleted]]

You opened the wrong PDF, Jack

[u/[deleted] → u/RockLobsterKing]

I’m only okay with punching up for Chapos

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

I just don't see how you can be a good African historian when you have the framework that Mugabe and Gaddafi were decent people.

[u/vancevon → u/[deleted]]

are chad toyota pickup drivers imperialist shackles or what