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November 7, 2019

Ilhan Omar’s Very Selective Anti-Imperialism

“Western imperialism” may have been bad, but what about the kind that threatens the world today?

Over the weekend, Representative Ilhan Omar, making a stump speech for the presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, praised him for his willingness to “fight against Western imperialism and . . . for a just world.” But, notes, Clifford May, it is unlikely she was referring to, say, European colonization of Africa, which ended in the 20th century. She seems, in fact, indifferent to contemporary imperialism:

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