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2010-06-11 Europe

Hungary Passes Law Equating Communism With Nazism - Criminalizing Denialism

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Posted by Anonymoose 2010-06-11 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Oriana Fallaci mentioned in her books that there really isn't that much difference between Fascism and Socialism / Communism.

Posted by CrazyFool 2010-06-11 00:53|| 2010-06-11 00:53|| Front Page Top

#2 Well, there is only a mustache's worth of difference between the two.

Posted by ed 2010-06-11 01:13|| 2010-06-11 01:13|| Front Page Top

#3 I read an article about Poland's law recently, the journalist poo-poohed the whole thing and said communism is just a phase kids go through, there is no point in comparing it to the world's worst evil. He was dismissive of the whole affair.

Posted by gromky 2010-06-11 02:55|| 2010-06-11 02:55|| Front Page Top

#4 This should have been done in the U.S. by George Bush I back when the wall came down. He was in exactly the right place at exactly the right time with exactly the right series of events to have the mandate to de-communize America the way Harry Truman purged Naziism from the education industry and government grant receivers. Bush had enough popular sentiment to defund any grant receiving educator or artist, or any rent-seeking business which espoused communism, and to permanently stigmatize the concept in the eyes of the public using the bully pulpit of the presidency.

Not doing so was the greatest mistake of his presidency, worse by far than reneging on his tax freeze promise. The nation suffers hugely for his sin of omission.

Children in public schools are taught about the Nazi holocaust almost constantly but in almost all cases never even hear about the communist ones once in twelve years of schooling, because the leftists in teacher's unions and leftist administrators don't want kids growing up with the notion that people with left-of-center politics are capable of doing anything wrong or bad. They want the kids to believe that only the center/right is capable of doing bad or evil things, so they can produce voters who reflexively believe that anyone possessing center/right politics is the same as the Nazis, and that people whose politics are left of center are perfect, wonderful beings. The entertainment industry is similarly quiet on things like the gulag and the Cultural Revolution, for similar reasons.

Quite on purpose, they teach or portray nothing at all about the far greater atrocities of the left, so that the same sort of guilt by association cannot be used against their own political agenda.

Public education will be incomplete, broken, and irredeemably damaged in this country until every kid that graduates has been taught as much about the atrocities of Stalin and Mao as they have about Hitler's crimes, and reflexively holds the leftist monsters in the same contempt and horror as they do those right of center. The folks in the entertainment industry will always be failures as artists and human beings as long as they stigmatize only the Nazis and not communists (or even non-white fascists like the Japanese).

Given the politics of most public school teachers and entertainers, I'm not holding my breath for a fix any time soon.

Posted by no mo uro 2010-06-11 06:12|| 2010-06-11 06:12|| Front Page Top

#5 no mo uro, this whole canard Nazis=right has. to. stop. Yes, Nazis were right of the commies, but ever so slightly. In the scope of the political spectrum, they still were on the left. While Komintern claimed to be internationalist (as long as the members heeded the Kremlin supremacy), Nazis were nationalist. One may say that in effect, the internationalist approach was just a ruse, the fealty direction was not to be in doubt.

Posted by twobyfour 2010-06-11 08:28|| 2010-06-11 08:28|| Front Page Top

#6 The whole idea that Nazism == Right is made up out of whole cloth. The deliberate deception (aka lie) is in our schools, the MSM, and in Hollywood - both bastions of 'progressives' (aka socialists).

Much like Racism == Right or KKK == Right. When in fact the vast majority of KKK members were Democrats and it was the Democrats who wrote the Jim Crow laws and opposed the Civil Rights Act.

Posted by CrazyFool 2010-06-11 08:44|| 2010-06-11 08:44|| Front Page Top

#7 Well done, Magyars!

Posted by Mike 2010-06-11 09:00|| 2010-06-11 09:00|| Front Page Top

#8 No First Amendment in Hungary, I take it.

Posted by Gaz 2010-06-11 09:49|| 2010-06-11 09:49|| Front Page Top

#9 Free speech is alive and well in Europe!
(But you may want to clear it with the ECRI just in case.)

Posted by DepotGuy 2010-06-11 10:48|| 2010-06-11 10:48|| Front Page Top

#10 Nazism and Communism; two sides of the same coin. Just as leftists, liberals, populists, radicals, statists, and progressives are different names for the same philosophical concepts. I call it hiding behind euphamisms. One can easily find TV or radio commentators who willing call themselves conservatives but try to find someone from the MSM who is willing to call themself a liberal or leftist. There is something wrong with that.

Posted by JohnQC 2010-06-11 13:56|| 2010-06-11 13:56|| Front Page Top

#11 Good. Now add Islamism.

Posted by One Eyed Thinenter6178 2010-06-11 18:42|| 2010-06-11 18:42|| Front Page Top

#12 Well, too bad they didn't cite radical Islam too, but given that the Saudis are making inroads in Magyarorszag and have been for sometime, this is not surprising.

Posted by HammerHead 2010-06-11 19:44|| 2010-06-11 19:44|| Front Page Top

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