On Sun, Nov 18, 2018 at 02:00:09PM +1000, jam...@echeque.com wrote: > > NOW it's a total fucking waste of time to even respond to garbage like > > this but I feel the need to point out the Khmer Rouge were empowered by > > the US government and Pentagram, and certainly weren't "left" of anything. > > But they ARE the goto diversionary narrative whenever schmucks like this > > mention the alleged genocide in Vietnam that never occurred in the wake of > > the US rout-departure > > The left passionately denied the bloodbath in Cambodia as they passionately > denied the bloodbath in Vietnam: > > They only admitted to the bloodbath when Vietnam successfully invaded Cambodia > - and only then did they blame it somehow on the Americans. > > Back then when Chomsky and Herman wrote, the left, myself among them, all knew > that something terrible was happening in Vietnam, though most now claim to > remember otherwise. Today even Chomsky himself now remembers that no one in > the press even suggested such a thing [12], though back then two months before > he and Herman so indignantly complained of the failure to report the bloodbath > as “missing”. the National Review told us [13]: > > "THE BLOODBATH is motivated not so much by hatred or revenge as by the > necessity for the Communist system to purge itself of undesirable elements > From a Marxist viewpoint political purge is a necessity in order to achieve > political purity, a precondition to the building of socialism. Political > purity ensures single mindedness, which in turn achieves high efficiency. The > Vietnamese Communists, as they showed in their conduct of the war, are > doctrinaire single minded, efficient. But not until all Vietnamese men, women, > and children think the Communist way will political purity be achieved for the > new nation as a whole. This is why indoctrination (“re-education” as they call > it) is of prime importance. For those who are too old or too stubborn to > change elimination is the only alternative." > > The crimes committed by the North Vietnamese regime against the Vietnamese > people were smaller than the crimes committed by the Khmer Rouge against the > Cambodians, but for us on the left they were emotionally far more significant. > > When these Vietnamese crimes became known, the reaction of the left was ignore > the facts, the details and evidence of the accusations, and attack the > messenger, a reaction that was strikingly inconsistent with our self image as > the conscience of the world, our image of ourselves as people who cared deeply > about the welfare of faraway strangers. Today, most of the radical left > comfortably remember these accusations that they so venomously and savagely > condemned as never having been made.
Let's hope that that "something terrible" does not come to North America. Time will tell...