Comments on: Q&A: Based on a Short Term to Saudi Arabia, Loring Danforth’s new book challenges ‘destructive’ Orientalism /news/2016/08/12/qa-with-a-new-book-loring-danforth-tries-to-prove-worthy-of-his-short-term-to-saudi-arabia/ Mon, 01 Jul 2024 19:57:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 By: demeter /news/2016/08/12/qa-with-a-new-book-loring-danforth-tries-to-prove-worthy-of-his-short-term-to-saudi-arabia/#comment-263017 Sat, 08 Apr 2017 20:08:00 +0000 /news/?p=102737#comment-263017 In reply to Dana.

I wonder if he had any discussions about Greeks? Like many that claim to have ethics, that claim to be against racism, Danforth unethically downplays the former Yugoslavians recent identity quick change into “ancient Macedonians” and obvious irredentism against Greece. Giant Alexander statues in ancient Paeonia are hard to miss.

Stanley Milligram was right. When people of authority turn into monsters, many average normal decent folk will become complicit in atrocities. One need look no further than the literally billions that evade over the former Yugoslavians bizarre attempt to usurp the very identity of Greeks, to hide their mistake of calling the former Yugoslavians “Macedonians”. This evasion effective amounts to collusion in a subtle attempt to ethnic cleanse Greeks.

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By: demeter /news/2016/08/12/qa-with-a-new-book-loring-danforth-tries-to-prove-worthy-of-his-short-term-to-saudi-arabia/#comment-263016 Sat, 08 Apr 2017 19:57:00 +0000 /news/?p=102737#comment-263016 Danforth acts like he’s all about minorities and objective.but behind the wall of post modernist gibberish he spits out… in practice he’s an incompetent pretentious unethical bigot.

Case in point… Danforth wrote to many human right groups condemning Greeks for not recognizing the former Yugoslavians as “Macedonians”. He glossed over the the fact the US itself did not recognize them during the cold war (when it helped fund the expulsion of Bulgarian nationalist promoting this exact same Macedonia name propaqanda) .

He assured human rights groups at the time that the former Yugoslavians were not claiming to be related to ancient Macedonians and were not promoting irredentism against Greece. He claimed that former Yugoslavians that claimed to be related to Alexander were “extremists”.(his exact word)

After widespread recognition of ancient Paeonia as “Macedonia”..Lo and behold.. the former Yugoslavians now suddenlyclaim to be founders of the HELLENISTIC period.

Where is self-righteous Danforth? The pretentious unethical bigot acts like he doesn’t notice their flip flopping identity claims and obvious irredentism against Greece. Far far more concerned about hiding his mistake of supporting conscious propagandists than academic objectivity he claims to stand for.

Loring Danfoth is an unprincipled bigot. Full stop.

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By: Dana /news/2016/08/12/qa-with-a-new-book-loring-danforth-tries-to-prove-worthy-of-his-short-term-to-saudi-arabia/#comment-262970 Sat, 13 Aug 2016 16:31:00 +0000 /news/?p=102737#comment-262970 I wonder if you had any discussions about how Saudi Arabians feel about Jews? Were any of the students Jewish?

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