Burma? Nah. China? What are you talking about?

No: the worst human rights abuses ever are those taking place under Mugabe, in which a more or less normal African dictator has expropriated land from white people.

If it was ever necessary to prove how deeply indebted the Anglosphere’s right wing is to their childhood fetishes, here is the final word - nothing freaks them out quite like the colonials revolting, and they have endless stories of this or that Siege (always, curiously, in land that the natives used to have sole rights to twenty years ago) and this or that Rebellion and this or that tragedy. When darkies start oppressing whitey in any fashion, an injustice for the ages has taken place.

Zimbabwe’s regime is autocratic and the expropriation of land is unfair. But the consistent treatment of Mugabe as the worst human being alive is patently ridiculous. Just like the continuous efforts to make any oppressed minority in the Islamic world into Christians (e.g. the (90%+ Sunni) Kurds or Fur), it’s a clear example of people refusing to exercise an ounce of critical thought, moving into the world with nursery-school lies as firm and fixed as laws of nature.

And if there’s no better reason to be found to avoid an American empire per the British one, it’s more than worth the price of forbearance to avoid some honky complaining at our tanned grandchildren that ‘they kicked us out of Iraq, you know’.