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August 28, 2008 - 3:11 pm - by Richard Fernandez
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2008-08-28 18:49:41

I’ve encountered this blindspot before too. In college in the late 80s, I was trying to back up my claim that it was right to oppose communist takeover in Vietnam. Asked to support my assertion that things weren’t all rosy happy national liberation, I said “well who do you think the boat people were?”

My very liberal classmate, who was extremely well-educated and informed, claimed they were Cambodians, and not Vietnamese!