Thongchai Winichakul knows the government in his native Thailand has been corrupt, but says that doesn’t mean it’s OK to depose the government.
“How corrupt is the U.S. government now? Should we try a coup? It’s stupid,” Winichakul, a professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said this morning. He specializes in the intellectual and cultural history of Thailand. “It’s really, really bad. But it’s not justification for a coup.”