tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post6182523947274462548..comments2024-03-26T12:23:29.784-04:00Comments on Philosoraptor: The Democrats' No Good, Ridiculous, Frivolous DayWinston Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08780746334199630779noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post-50359465746547127282018-09-06T19:11:42.304-04:002018-09-06T19:11:42.304-04:00I should point out that I don't really want Ma...I should point out that I don't really want Marxists to be stifled, I'd much rather them lose in an open competition of ideas, it's just really obvious that the intellectual marketplace isn't accurately weighing these things, which suggests somethings amiss (viz Leftists circling the wagons instead of taking responsibility for where they go wrong).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post-34026409321618839512018-09-06T19:09:56.831-04:002018-09-06T19:09:56.831-04:00Not to mention if someone proposed restoring the B...Not to mention if someone proposed restoring the British viceroy in India, or any restoration of European colonialism, he would be met with a horror not seen with an appeal to Marxism. And again, the differences in raw human suffering caused by the two do not favor the Marxists.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post-73940613844909366292018-09-06T16:56:08.802-04:002018-09-06T16:56:08.802-04:00How is that relevant to the question of differenti...How is that relevant to the question of differential treatment of the Nazis and the communists?Winston Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08780746334199630779noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post-70188304536852801232018-09-06T14:30:54.551-04:002018-09-06T14:30:54.551-04:00Sigh. If you want body counts, look at the various...Sigh. If you want body counts, look at the various famines caused by British mercantilism, both in India and closer to home in Ireland. Blaming imhunity on "the other", be they communist or fascist, just doesn't work.Pete Mackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14675790226494153847noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post-2448524381748388592018-09-06T10:31:15.330-04:002018-09-06T10:31:15.330-04:00Well, those are interesting points alright. Well, those are interesting points alright. Winston Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08780746334199630779noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post-49303320723342098072018-09-06T10:03:24.992-04:002018-09-06T10:03:24.992-04:00Oh no, you give things a fair shake, although I do...Oh no, you give things a fair shake, although I do think right wing views are definitely stigmatized (because racist/sexist has suffered extreme semantic bloat, so now immigration restriction is racist). <br /><br />I'm not sure I buy the Holocaust distinction either. There's just too high a body count for the communists and other variants of extreme leftists (anticolonialists like Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post-10361011106107341342018-09-06T09:37:03.904-04:002018-09-06T09:37:03.904-04:00It *is* weird that Nazism is like secular Satanism...It *is* weird that Nazism is like secular Satanism, while Communism--or even Stalinism or Maoism--isn't/aren't. <br /><br />The difference, I think, is the Holocaust--and, maybe, to some extent, the fact that WWII was the titanic, apocalyptic struggle against evil. There's just no real analog of the footage of the murder camps. <br /><br />Anyway...are extreme right-wing views Winston Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08780746334199630779noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post-71215216906351974542018-09-06T09:27:20.561-04:002018-09-06T09:27:20.561-04:00Although, again, the left has its faction that gle...<i>Although, again, the left has its faction that gleefully looks forward to a white minority, and those who work fairly hard to convince non-whites that they really ought to hate whites... And, again: many of those are in the faculty... But, still: no runes. No runes is something, anyway.</i><br /><br />Although they might have a completely anachronistic collection of african or native american Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com