I apparently skipped level ??? and went straight to believing the Black Book is fascist propaganda. I didn’t realize I was supposed to stan Pol Pot first!
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I have literally never seen anyone defend the Khmer Rouge, ever lol
you can find them but they're fringe. Usually weirdos who are just dipping their toes in marxism and think the khmer rouge must have been lied about, and then outright weirdo agendaposters there to wreck communism with their terrible takes. You can spot the latter because they're historical revisionists outright, like cherry-picking quotes and parts of documents that support their narrative and usually nothing more substantial to offer if you press them.
I'm just saying I ain't never seent it
Yeah, I've seen a depressingly large number of the first lot. (Though that number is still only in the low double digits, any is really a depressing number).
I think it is as simple as them being idealists. They've "read Pol Pot" or whatever and assume that because he wrote something halfway decent on paper, all the of the actual actions of the Khmer Rouge are irrelevant.
Alternatively they might take the attitude of "the west lies about every other AES, therefore everything bad that happened in Cambodia was also a lie."