I haven't read this book but your critique could be applied to any number of modern progressive narratives about European and Americans being the source of all evil in the world.
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I haven't read this book but your critique could be applied to any number of modern progressive narratives about European and Americans being the source of all evil in the world.
You should give it a try just to understand the way of thinking of modern progressive groups.
If not, there's plenty of Chomsky's theory on the book of Galeano.
On one level they are all the same, progressive politics, theories and histories appeal to those who have an external locus of control, I liked your line:
or in the case of American progressives all ills are blamed on straight white cisgender men.
That Idea of withe supremacist comes actually from Latin America, as a Venezuelan I have seen and I have lived throughout my life and I still live this kind of rhetoric.
I think resentment is the biggest enemy of mankind, it does not let them see clear and further.