RIP, gin-soaked ex-Trotskyite popinjay
Dec. 16th, 2011 06:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sabotabbyYou know, I am truly and genuinely sad about Christopher Hitchens' death.
I've spilled a good number of pixels here bashing the man, and he entirely deserved it, but he was a complicated villain, and thus generally more interesting than the people I typically mock on his blog. He switched from the right side of history to the wrong one, but I can't forget that he wrote The Trial of Henry Kissinger or that he subjected himself to the same torture techniques that he endorsed, and having done so, changed his mind about them.
So yes, he was racist, misogynistic, and warmongering, but as far as racist, misogynistic warmongers go, I had a strange and twisted affection for the bastard. I'm sorry we don't have him to kick around anymore.
I've spilled a good number of pixels here bashing the man, and he entirely deserved it, but he was a complicated villain, and thus generally more interesting than the people I typically mock on his blog. He switched from the right side of history to the wrong one, but I can't forget that he wrote The Trial of Henry Kissinger or that he subjected himself to the same torture techniques that he endorsed, and having done so, changed his mind about them.
So yes, he was racist, misogynistic, and warmongering, but as far as racist, misogynistic warmongers go, I had a strange and twisted affection for the bastard. I'm sorry we don't have him to kick around anymore.
