Communists are as bad as Nazis, and their defenders and apologists are as bad as Nazis’ defenders, but far more common. When you meet them, show them no respect. They’re evil, stupid, and dishonest. They should not enjoy the consequences of their behavior.
Thursday, December 16, 2010
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... Glenn isn't pulling any punches on this one: AND YET APOLOGISTS IN AMERICA WERE COMPARING HIM TO THE EARLY CHRISTIANS.
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I just want to know where Glenn keeps running into all these Communist apologists.
ReplyDeleteHe's older than you are, Daniel, and I'm a good deal older than he is. I've known lots of them. Even a relative of mine is one. He likes to think that Soviet communism didn't fail; it just wasn't implemented correctly. I also forwarded your comment to Glenn, so maybe he will explain.
ReplyDeleteI liked this: “When the communists show up to protest the nazis, you’re supposed to pray for an asteroid, not pick a favourite.”
ReplyDeleteAnd this: "Yes, of course: when I get a bullet in the back of the head from somebody for the ‘crime’ of believing in property rights I so totally will feel better about it because the shooter and I ‘merely’ disagree on the best route to Utopia."
And this: “I regard it as Red fascism, distinguishable from black and brown fascism by differences of no importance to me nor to its victims.”
Well, it's hard to see this as anything more than the usual incendiary ad hominem name-calling. From whatever side or direction it comes from, so what? People get riled up. Does it really contribute anything to solving the real issue? or even discerning the real problems with an issue? Not really, not often, and definitely not in this case. But then, one doesn't expect much.
ReplyDeleteAnd being an apologist for the anti-apologists seems particularly pretzel-logic. :)
Well, I don't know. I reviewed Martin Amis's Koba the Dread, and I remember when the Soviet archives demonstrated that, contrary to what his Soviet-sympathizing critics had said, Robert Conquest had not exaggerated the number of people killed by Stalin's famines, but had in fact underestimated them. I remember, too, when a new edition came out with the correct figures, and Conquest was asked if he wanted to make any other changes, he suggested changing the title to "I Was Right, You Fucking Fools." You get yourself tainted with a anything remotely Nazi and you're in trouble -- ask the Pope. But if people find out you were a Stalinist, oh well, you were just a young and naive idealist. Bullshit, I say. There is definitely a double-standard at work here.
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