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"Communist Denier" Teaches Students
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Posted on 11/08/2012 9:34:25 PM PST by TigerClaws

"Communist Denier" Teaches Students

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdajUraK0LM&feature=youtube_gdata_player

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1 posted on 11/08/2012 9:34:28 PM PST by TigerClaws
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To: TigerClaws

Good Grief. We need to understand how evil the ideology which has invaded our schools is, and save the minds of the future. These “teachers” are typical of today-—sadly.

Our children will not know the Truth without the Bible. Satan took over the schools over 50 years ago and people still allow their vulnerable children to have their minds twisted and warped by such people. They teach Evil is Good.

An ex-KGB spy (Yuri B.) reported on a news program in the 70’s that disinformation was prevalent in ALL USA curricula for decades to destroy logic and reason in children. (Dewey was a Fabian Socialist).


2 posted on 11/08/2012 9:50:33 PM PST by savagesusie (Right Reason According to Nature = Just Law)
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To: TigerClaws

Thanks! That professor engages in Goebbels’ Big Lie so adamantly that the students in the room laugh at him. The internet is the flashlight that shines into the ratholes.


3 posted on 11/08/2012 9:52:22 PM PST by jobim (.)
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To: TigerClaws

Anyone have a link to a good, short article that explains why communism is bad? I’d like to give it to come college students who have spent most of their education being brainwashed by idiot leftists.


4 posted on 11/08/2012 10:07:57 PM PST by garjog (Heroes Died. Obama Lied.)
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To: jobim

My wife is Ukrainian. They endured a mass starvation from Stalin.

If this man denied Hitler killed people, he’d be fired the next day. Says this foolishness and still has a job? Insulting.


5 posted on 11/08/2012 10:11:41 PM PST by TigerClaws
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To: jobim

http://frontpagemag.com/2012/gabriella-hoffman/professor-praises-stalin-claims-he-never-committed-one-crime/


6 posted on 11/08/2012 10:14:21 PM PST by TigerClaws
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To: garjog

List of communist mass murders.

http://www.paulbogdanor.com/left.html


7 posted on 11/08/2012 10:16:20 PM PST by TigerClaws
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To: TigerClaws

If I recall my history of the period correctly (and I’m guessing I know it better that the assclown in the video) the starvation of the Ukrainian people was how Nikita Krushchev “made his bones” with the party - killing his Ukrainian neighbors en masse.


8 posted on 11/08/2012 11:42:12 PM PST by shibumi (Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
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To: TigerClaws

In 2005 I wrote an article on this clown for FPM. Can’t believe this idiot’s still at it.

http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=9247


9 posted on 11/09/2012 12:06:40 AM PST by Rocco DiPippo
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To: Rocco DiPippo

Would this constitute “hate speech”? I hate that PC stuff but would enjoy the irony of it getting this clown fired.


10 posted on 11/09/2012 12:52:31 AM PST by TigerClaws
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To: garjog; PGalt
Anyone have a link to a good, short article that explains why communism is bad? I’d like to give it to come college students who have spent most of their education being brainwashed by idiot leftists.
Obviously people who have been "brainwashed” cannot be convinced by a short article. FA Hayek wrote his classic refutation of socialism/communism during WWII, and it was a sensation in America (Hayek wrote in Britain) when The Road to Serfdom
(Link to the Readers' Digest Condensed Version in PDF!)
was published while Hayek was sailing to America for what had been expected to be a routine author’s tour promoting his book - but which played to overflow audiences everywhere.
Serfdom is filled with topical references to people who were famous at the time but are now little remembered - but you could focus on the chapter entitled (IIRC) “Why the Worst Get on Top.” It treats a fundamental fallacy of Communism - the bland assumption that a dictatorial government will naturally be run by well-meaning people. The Black Book of Communism - Crimes, Terror, Repression is a validation of Hayek’s thesis on this point.

The Wikipedia link above also mentions the similarity of Communism and Naziism; Serfdom hammers the similarities, and discusses the nuances of difference, heavily. Writing before the death camps were public knowledge, Hayek predicted, on the basis of the public knowledge of the Gulag (as Solzenitsen later styled it), that revolting systematic crimes by the Nazis would be come to light.

Of course propaganda is central to communism and other forms of socialism, including our own “democracy” in which shocking portions of the public at large can be systematically diverted from significant facts about the government, and can be convinced of fantastic improbabilities like the idea that Mitt Romney is a criminal. My own theory on the “brainwashed” problem is that our journalism is propagandistic because it can be, no other explanation is necessary. Why wouldn’t it be, if it had opportunity? And my theory on the reason journalism has the opportunity is because journalism is unified. Journalism it is unified because
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. - Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations, Book I, Ch 10
And of all people, journalists “meet together,” at least virtually, more than anyone. The Associated Press newswire is nothing but a continuous, 24/7 virtual meeting which determines what is, and what is not, news.

IMHO propaganda always has to begin with sophistry. The term “sophistry” comes from the Greek word “Sophist” denoting a party which claimed superior wisdom. Such a claim leads to very short, very unsatisfying arguments: I am wise, you are not. Therefore I am right, and you are wrong.” Claiming wisdom came into very bad odor on that account. The school which rose up in competition with the Sophists was the Philosophers. Philosophers eschewed a claim of wisdom, but claimed only to love wisdom - thus, to be open to arguments based on facts and logic. AP members claim “objectivity” for all AP members - and IMHO “objectivity,” as they use the term, is merely code for the Sophists’ claim of “wisdom.” Another way of saying that is to assert that it is inherently impossible to know that you are objective, and that anyone who claims actual objectivity - instead of having the humility to limit oneself to claiming to try to be objective - is guilty of arrogance. And a claim of trying to be objective must be backed up by explicit admission of the known reasons why you might not be objective. Sincere admission of the possibility of failure in the quest for objectivity, of course, is logically incompatible with membership in an organization - Associated Press, exhibit A - which you know will claim that you actually are objective.

Why is journalism’s propaganda leftist? My theory is that the internal logic of any institution which does nothing except criticize, condemn, and complain is and can only be socialism. Socialism is simply the theory that the complainers should be in charge. Whereas capitalism takes for granted that people should have authority only to the extent that they get things done of, by, and for the people.

The word “progress” appears once in the Constitution - as a good to be promoted, and in the context of creativity of the people, not politicians. One of the ironies of “progressives” is that they oppose progress. Drill for oil? It is “progressives” who will oppose it, and “conservatives” who will support it. Which only tells you that our political labels are Newspeak. As does the fact that the meaning of the term “liberal” was (according to Safire’s New Political Dictionary) inverted in the 1920s - but only in America. Note that Serfdom was written in Britain, by someone who learned English in America before the 1920s. He uses the term “liberal” heavily in the book, and in its non-inverted sense. It is a confusion factor which he acknowledges with sorrow in a later edition.


11 posted on 11/09/2012 7:27:43 AM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion (The idea around which “liberalism" coheres is that NOTHING actually matters except PR.)
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To: garjog

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1385564/posts?page=9#9


12 posted on 11/09/2012 12:10:39 PM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion (The idea around which “liberalism" coheres is that NOTHING actually matters except PR.)
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To: conservatism_IS_compassion

Very good. Thanks you for the links. Didn’t realize that Road to Serfdom was online.

I will use these links in my college class.


13 posted on 11/09/2012 1:41:55 PM PST by garjog (Heroes Died. Obama Lied.)
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To: Rocco DiPippo

Thanks very much for your work focusing on this one individual. His 2.4 rating from students and their comments are encouraging. Smart kids. (maybe smarter clown...he’s making money...they’re/we’re going in debt paying him)


14 posted on 11/09/2012 11:23:10 PM PST by PGalt
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To: conservatism_IS_compassion; garjog; All

Thanks very much for the ping; post. More, here...

http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html

(Socialism Is Legal Plunder)

http://www.usdebtclock.org/

http://www.wnd.com/2012/08/socialisms-death-count/

http://www.fff.org/freedom/1094f.asp

http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/

Plunder and Death - Socialism/Totalitarianism 2.0

Good thread. Thanks to all posters.

live - free - republic/individual


15 posted on 11/09/2012 11:38:58 PM PST by PGalt
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To: garjog
Very good. Thanks you for the links. Didn’t realize that Road to Serfdom was online.

I will use these links in my college class.

Heads up! I got to thinking about the ephemeral nature of some links, and the length of time which has passed since I made the link in question - and, sure enough, the link in the FR posting I pointed you to is broken. But the same PDF file is still available, with the similar but distinct address http://www.iea.org.uk/sites/default/files/publications/files/upldbook43pdf.pdf
I have added that notation to the FR thread I originally referenced - but of course that doesn’t correct the broken link at the top of the thread.
Additional significant note:
In addition to the Readers Digest condensed book, the PDF file also contains a cartoon version of the outline of Hayek’s argument. That could be a “hook” to get your students to read the condensed version, at least, of Serfdom. If you’re limited in the amount of reading you can assign, maybe you could just direct your students to see the cartoon - and hope that they take the bait!

16 posted on 11/11/2012 7:44:06 PM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion (The idea around which “liberalism" coheres is that NOTHING actually matters except PR.)
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