oh lord, please don’t let me be misunderstood
One man’s pirate, it would seem, is another man’s freedom fighter. Misunderstood victims of nasty propaganda campaigns.
Thank god for Johann Hari who sets us straight. Of pirates, he writes
They mutinied against their tyrannical captains - and created a different way of working on the seas. Once they had a ship, the pirates elected their captains, and made all their decisions collectively. They shared their bounty out in what Rediker calls “one of the most egalitarian plans for the disposition of resources to be found anywhere in the eighteenth century.”
They say this kind of thing about Hamas and others, don’t they?