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Hard as it may be to imagine, there are things that are more important than whether someone said something nice once about the US civil rights movement - such a
by temphn 13y ago
Hard as it may be to imagine, there are things that are more important than whether someone said something nice once about the US civil rights movement - such as hundreds of millions of Chinese lives. The USA is not the center of the world and the level of platitudinous veneration of American icons is not the most important criterion by which to judge a foreign leader.
- pessimizer 13y agoAs hard as it can be to imagine, you don't have to discuss every aspect of something while making a point about a single aspect of something.
- moo 13y agoYou sound like a writer for Reader's Digest beating a drum of evil empires. It is a cheap shot about deaths that cannot be argued here just as Trayvon Martin would not be a HN article. HN politics have to be circuitous, indirect and arguments depending on popular assumptions but cannot be taken to task as it would be off-topic. How can people take these death estimates at face value when academics have been paid by the CIA, death estimates in books like "The Black Book of Communism" have been proven to be exponentially inflated, child births go down during upheavals but the birth decrease gets counted as deaths.
- temphn 13y ago“Imagine, if you will, someone who read only Reader’s Digest between 1950 and 1970, and someone in the same period who read only The Nation or The New Statesman. Which reader would have been better informed about the realities of Communism? The answer, I think, should give us pause. Can it be that our enemies were right?” Susan Sontag, 1982. http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/03/12/specials/sontag-communism.html http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/03/12/specials/sontag-commun...