Let me know when wearing a hammer-and-sickle gets the same response as wearing a swastika.
There is talk in the EU about banning the symbol entirely. I would be that if you asked the same people about banning communist symbols, they would look at you like you were from another planet.
The point is it will be a cold day in hell before the communists, who killed almost a hundred million people, will get the same contempt from the popular liberal culture here and across the Atlantic as Nazism deservedly does. There are kids wearing Che shirts and hammer-and-sickle shirts around here. Heck, the high school seniors a couple of years ago, whose official color was red, stuck a hammer-and-sickle on the official senior class shirts. To the best of my knowledge, there wasn't a peep of objection.
This discrepancy in perception of two equally criminal philosophies requires a massive intellectual disconnect that still amazes me.
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Not really the point Lee was making.
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- Prince Harry cartoon
- I hear they're building new statues of Stalin in Russia. Where's the outrage? (n/t)
- yes, how dare others get outraged at public displays of Hitlerism - "the Stalinists are getting away with it, why can't we" - life's just not fair is it .. (n/t)
- Not really the point Lee was making.
- On the contrary: you are making exactly the same point as him - minus the Nazi sympathies, of course
- No, I'm saying that you're bitching up the wrong tree.
- SO, THE NAZI APOLOGIST LEE SAYS THAT "STALIN WAS FAR WORSE THAN HITLER"
- Are you not aware of my hatred for Stalin, which I have often mentioned here?
- I side with you (and the US Bill of Rights) on most of this
- I think the point I'm trying to make...
- Yes, you do try to make that point (n/t)
- And besides
- AND THE POINT I WAS TRYING TO MAKE (WHICH YOU IGNORE)
- I think the point in Britain is that neither Lenin nor Stalin bombed London.
- I think the point I'm trying to make...
- No, I'm saying that you're bitching up the wrong tree.
- On the contrary: you are making exactly the same point as him - minus the Nazi sympathies, of course
- Not really the point Lee was making.
- yes, how dare others get outraged at public displays of Hitlerism - "the Stalinists are getting away with it, why can't we" - life's just not fair is it .. (n/t)
- I hear they're building new statues of Stalin in Russia. Where's the outrage? (n/t)