All I see is sickening apologism for the tends of millions murdered by communism. Both fascism and Communism murdered millions, to handwave one away while condemning the other is what is sickening.
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Hey, not all of us are closet communists.
My grandfather fought the communists in the Greek civil war, after fighting the Nazis. He was the best man I knew, he had shot both fascists AND communists.
Actually, I'm more on the Liberitarian side of the left than the authoritarian. Don't really want communism, nor do I think it could ever succeed, and I CERTAINLY don't have any trouble condemning what was done under Stalin or Mao. But I won't have people use it as a false moral equivalency to pretend that "At least the Nazi's aren't that bad"
Nothing excuses what the Nazi's did. Nothing.
Nazis are actively killing innocent Americans. Communists are not.
Yet, why are people so eager to draw an equivalent?
Like, Nazis run over people with cars and shoot people in churches and stab them on buses.
Yet, the only answer people seem to have is whataboutism regarding communists.
Lying bullshit thread:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/06/wo...e.html?mcubz=1
Three killed during leftist portests in Greece by "protesters who numbered in the hundreds — mostly young and many clad in black, wearing hoods or masks and carrying helmets, wooden bats or hammers — and whom the police and other demonstrators identified broadly as anarchists"
Aka when Antifa just isn't Antifa enough...
What handwaving? What was done under Stalin and Mao was horrible. Does the fact that someone on the Left did something bad excuse the atrocities the Nazi's commited? If your answer is "No", then you should never, ever try to excuse what Nazi's, Fascists or Neo-Nazi's did or have done by going "But Communists..."
Greece has a long history of leftist violence. 17 November, a known Greek Communist terrorist group, murdered more than 20 people across multiple attacks and assassinations. They killed Greeks, Americans, British, and Turks.
And that's just one group. After the socialist PASOK party came to power in 1981, they pardoned and allowed back in a number of pretty vile left-wing groups. Shameful.
The Communists should have never been allowed to reform in Greece, they almost tore the country apart in our civil war.
Defend people when they are directly threatened and work to delegitimize NAZIS (Which they already are as seen by the reaction of the media and americans as a whole), that's the way to fight these idiots. Large scale confrontations and street violence for the sake of it don't do nothing but scale up a problem and plays into the rhetoric of "both sides are the same".
Last edited by Mittens; 2017-09-02 at 11:11 PM.