iroon.com: Quotes: An interesting rhetorical shift has occurred on the western left. People's uprisings against authoritarian regimes used to be a good thing. They used to be called revolutions. Now they get defined as "regime change", and even solidarity or humanitarian aid is cast as evil.

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An interesting rhetorical shift has occurred on the western left. People's uprisings against authoritarian regimes used to be a good thing. They used to be called revolutions. Now they get defined as "regime change", and even solidarity or humanitarian aid is cast as evil.

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