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I am pleasantly surprised that communist atrocities are actually published in the New York Times. It is so important not to forget and whitewash history.
by robotrout 8y ago
I am pleasantly surprised that communist atrocities are actually published in the New York Times. It is so important not to forget and whitewash history.
- andybak 8y agoYou almost sound like you think the New York Times is a communist front organisation.
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- robotrout 8y agoI am pleased that you sound like you feel that would be a bad thing. Communism is being sold as a cool thing by Bernie Sander, Ocasio-Cortez, Antifa, and others. If that view becomes mainstream, it won't end well for any of us.
- happytoexplain 8y agoWhat a bizarre attack on the NYT.
- pnw_hazor 8y ago"In the news columns of The New York Times, the celebrated Sydney Schanberg wrote of Cambodians that ``it is difficult to imagine how their lives could be anything but better with the Americans gone.'' He dismissed predictions of mass executions in the wake of a Khmer Rouge victory: ``It would be tendentious to forecast such abnormal behavior as national policy under a Communist government once the war is over.'' On April 13, 1975, Schanberg's dispatch from Phnom Penh was headlined, ``Indochina without Americans: for most, a better life.''" "As the death marches out of Phnom Penh proceeded, Lewis [NYT Columnist] went on making excuses for the Khmer Rouge. He mused that it was ``the only way to start on their vision of a new society.'' Americans who objected were guilty of ``cultural arrogance, an imperial assumption, that . . . our way of life'' would be better." http://archive.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/1998/04/30/american_leftists_were_pol_pots_cheerleaders/ http://archive.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/...
- sparkzilla 8y agoIt's almost as if people had never heard of Walter Duranty.