You don't want to taint yourself or your organization with any affiliation as it does come back to be lingering. Which is why the Serbian Church where I live is outcasted by many for their past affiliations.
Honor and Principle, honor and principle. Know what I mean, Vern?..:)
Socialists/Communists blueprint their attacks on anyone that attacks an institution backing their political ideologue, boka. It does not matter if it's liberal, middle/road or conservative, they will side with anyone that 'supports/ed' the Slobo dictatorship. i.e America is hated by all socialists so of course he'd jump on the Serb bandwagon to spite my country, America.
Whether he is humanely sincere or as I believe, he is politically sincere, he lost a friend and fellow ideologue in the old Serbian communist system.
And what if I think Handke is being unfairly painted with the same brush that painted the Serbs as "demons", ma? What if I think that Handke stuck his neck out for Serbs when he had no need to, other than to obey his God-given conscience? Should I kick him to the curb then?
No one gave a damn about Handke's politics until he defended the Serbs. No one boycotted his plays or dug up his history for "clues", denied him literary prizes or lied about his statemnents. But once he wrote a book that wasn't even political, it simply humanized the Serbs and the war, the world turned on him -- and did all of what they had not done to him before. Coincidence? I don't thinks so.
Believing what I believe, which is that Handke acted out of conscience and not political ideology, please tell me what kind of "integrity" would I have if I turned on him just because others have?
Zero! So let's agree to disagree.