Yeah, something felt off throughout the whole video, even though the summary of Furr’s work seems decent. In the ending especially he says (paraphrasing): “maybe we should question the narrative we’ve been told about Nazi Germany and the USSR as these two evil totalitarian twins”

Yeah, so he shows some arguments debunking the mainstream view of Stalin, because there are facts to support this debunking, then he leaves the door open for his audience to… do the same about the nazis. Except you can’t do that, because the nazis really were that terrible. But it’s still going to embolden a lot of people to think the nazis were actually not that bad

I wouldn’t be surprised if this guy does a reverse double genocide theory

I can relate to that, most of my working life has been burnout after burnout. You ignore the signs for too long, then finally take a break when it’s too much, and then it all comes crashing down worse than you thought it would.

I hope you’re able to prolong your break somehow, I’ve found these things need a long time to go away. Although I know it’s rare privilege to be able to do that.

You can more or less extend that to Global South diaspora in the Global North

I don’t see this being any different from their past attitude, except they’re even more delusional now. They’ve basically compiled all the “China bad” disinformation tropes they’ve concocted over the years, and now they’re acting as if it’s a given they’ll outlast the PRC and they’re imagining how they’ll carve it up, when in reality this is already unlikely and, so far, only getting less probable over time.

The bar is so low I’m letting that one slide. They’re surely doing it on purpose anyway

Yup, that’s how they wrote it. It just makes it even harder to take the piece seriously