We would never judge, of course, someone by his\her anchestor’s criminal records. No matter how their “blood” is related, they’re different individuals. Their acts and their thoughts are assented as disconnected from each others.
But what if the descendant of a criminal appropriates and even celebrates this ancestor —not in his/her own private conversations but— in Public, in media?
In this case things get a different hallmark. The situation with this appropriation becomes a matter of textual analysis. Here we give a start for the study of such kind of an appropriation discourse which needs to be tricky and sophisticated — especially when it consists of a known politician as Chrystia Freeland having further career plans. Hereunder how does she do it in her text she published six years ago:
In addition to the tricks we show above, she mentions that she is not a russophobe (a smart lie) and she drowns the reader into a long anti-putinist discourse and, as usual, into the democracy X autocracy dichotomy, which is actually a good example for what we call as false contradiction.
Hence, methods may vary but the use of fine rhetoric for obscurification of obvious facts and a well-tuned romantization to avoid the undesired inquiries by readers/audience are crucial in such a risky intellectual maneuver… it may bring out scandalous consequences.
So, why taking such a risk? Why don’t you just shut your mouth up, Chrystia?
Any scholar more or less accustomed to the theory of nationalism could easily come up with the following answer: Every nation building needs a success story, a heroic narrative about it’s past. The “sad” fact is that Ukraine as a “nation” has no such a story. Nazi collaboration is just one manifestation of their impotency. The idea of “Ukraine” has been fabricated not by people living “there” but within the Imperialist struggle among the Great Powers (similar to the Kurdish, Uyghur, etc., identities). And the raison d’etre of Chrystia Freeland, in her settling and surviving in Canada is nothing but being the bugle of her masters.
Hey Chrystia, good luck in your next job! )))