Posted on 06/30/2007 3:12:04 PM PDT by DogByte6RER
Red Star Ignorance - Cameron Diaz and the great Peruvian faux pas
By Court Pearman
Epoch Times Washington, D.C. Staff
June 30, 2007
Oh, Poor Cameron Diaz! She got roasted for wearing a bag with a red star and a quote from Mao Tse Tung on it in Peru, a country that suffered massive bloodshed at the hands of Maoist rebels. People who survive civil wars are so uptight.
It is not like she was wearing a bag with a Hitler quote and a black swastika on it. That would have been really bad. And she wasn't wearing a KKK bag that said "White Power" on it.
Let me be straight with you for a moment. Since the communists took control of China in the 1940s, they have killed more than 80 million people. When Mao took power he had all the intellectuals and religious people executed, shut down the universities, and took away private property. According to the book "Hungry Ghosts," during Mao's "Great Leap Forward" campaign 30 million people starved to death during a time of plenty; other sources put the death toll at over 40 million—in any case, several times the number killed during the Holocaust. Mao's murdering henchmen all wore red stars.
That's just the beginning of Mao's crimes, and his legacy of terror lives today in various persecutions in China, as well as in the minds of terrorist groups in Latin America and Asia, including in the recent violence in Indonesia and Nepal. He is not chic, campy, nor a mis-understood hero. Mao is a mass-murderer.
If Cameron Diaz wants to understand this, perhaps she should talk to Richard Gere—he would never be caught accessorizing with a Mao bag. He knows that Mao invaded Tibet, slaughtered ten percent of its population, colonized it, and began wiping out its ancient culture. The soldiers conquering Tibet all wore red stars.
In the case of Peru, the Maoists tried to duplicate China's brutal revolution by destroying the native Incan culture, sowing discord in the rural areas to choke off the cities, and carrying out mass executions for minor "counterrevolutionary" offenses such as selling vegetables independent of the central government. The brutality of its "popular trials" included slitting throats, strangulation, stoning, and burning. Maoist victims were never allowed burials.
Theodore Dalrymple, famous English-writer and retired prison-physician and psychiatrist wrote that "The worst brutality I ever saw was that committed by Sendero Luminoso [Shining Path] in Peru, in the days when it seemed possible that it might come to power. If it had, I think its massacres would have dwarfed those of the Khmer Rouge."
Peru's Truth and Reconciliation Commission revealed in its 2003 report that 69,280 people had died or disappeared—22,507 fully identified as dead and 46,773 disappearances. Human Rights Watch confirms those numbers.
But Cameron is not alone in her red-star ignorance. Those Che shirts are everywhere, and Che was a communist versed in Maoist logic. Even Macy's Department Store has a red star for their logo. I cringe every time I see it. The five-point red star is not cute; it is culpable ignorance.
I live in Washington DC, so I go to the Smithsonian museums from time to time. A big disappointment to me is the Freer and Sackler Museum gift shop. The Freer has a superb Asian art collection, but the gift shop has some Mao stuff in it, including a book called "The Tao of Mao," which offers up Mao quotes as daily inspiration. The Smithsonian is run by smart people; why would they have such a thing?
I guess the squeaky wheel gets the grease. The Chinese people have been pretty quiet about their Communist experiences. It is no wonder. They know what Mao's heirs do to those who complain.
Plus, nobody has made a movie called Jose's List about a Latino businessman who saves the villagers from the brainwashed communist rebels waving Mao's "Little Red Book" in the streets of Lima. After all, don't the Chinese still have a communist government today, and it's been more than ten whole years since they massacred thousands of students on Tiananmen Square. And those Che shirts are just everywhere.
We are so quick to forget. Some things are just simply off-limits. Mao and communism need to be added to that list, and the public notified.
There’s something about Cameron.
Power to the people!...Like totally... Um, like why are these dirty little people still here...
Cameron, baby...commie fashions are so 20th century genocide!
“People who survive civil wars”
Indeed, a good friend of mine is from El Salvador, his father was killed by fnlm the Commies backed by Nicaragua, Mao is not a friend of his at all.
Diaz is just a typical moronic Hollweird celeb, all symbols, no substance and the Peruvian are trying like heck to try Alberto Fujimoto, who crushed the “Shining path to darkness”..
Well, at least she wasn’t wearing a Che T-shirt. This is just another decorative, ignorant, dim bulb on vacation on Peru.
Agree with you about Macy’s. I e-mailed them over the holidays and complained about them having Susan Sarandon as a spokesperson in their TV commercials. Needless to say, I didn’t get a reply. (I don’t shop at Macy’s, either.)
ping
She was HOT in the movie “The Mask.” I wondered what happened to her?
I thought the same.
One of the things of which I am most ashamed is that, when I was in college in the 1960’s, I wore a Mao button, and a Che button. I also carried Mao’s little red book in my back pocket However, I fell asleep every time I tried to read it. I shouldn’t have fallen asleep. I should have so frightened by it that I should not have been able to sleep.
“The Freer has a superb Asian art collection, but the gift shop has some Mao stuff in it...The Smithsonian is run by smart people; why would they have such a thing?” This writer must not have been in DC during the Enola Gay episode, when the Smithsonian America-haters’ true colors came to light, or he wouldn’t be asking such questions. Then there was the First Ladies display at the American History Museum that included Mrs. Clinton’s cast-offs and Chelsea Clinton’s ballet shoes when Clinton was still in office. I thought I would puke right there in front of Eleanor Roosevelt’s fox scarf. The Clintons didn’t even have the taste or decency (surprise!) to wait until his term was up to dump all their old, used crap on the Smithsonian.
Why are these shit for brains morons permitted outside the LA city limits?
It’s unfortunate that the Macy’s logo is the same as the one used by the communist party. The founder worked on a Nantucket whaling ship as a young man and the logo comes from his tatoo he got at the time. The star has nothing to do with communism, but we associate the red star with communism and apply our own reasoning to the logo.
A “Viva Zapata” button was as far as I ever strayed, ten years later. I knew in college what a bunch of murdering bastards the Chinese and Russian Communists were, and I fell asleep trying to read Trotsky’s book on Stalin, one cold-hearted murdering bastard explaining why his opponent was a cold-hearted murdering bastard. I still have that book and have never been able to get past the first 20 or 30 pages. I am convinced that communism failed, in part, because its advocates were so damn boring. In addition to being morally bankrupt, they were intellectually bankrupt. I am waiting for Noam Chomsky to show me the Federalist Papers of the Soviet Union.
the people’s cube rules!
Diaz is just a typical moronic Hollweird celeb, all symbols, no substance
Isn’t it the truth? I guess these people can’t go ANYPLACE UNLESS they have some outrageous outfit on, an entourage or some statment like this nitwit with the Mao bag. I bet if someone on the spot asked her about Mao right then and there and why she chose to use that bag and what was her reasoning and would she explain her support for Mao she wouldn’t be able to tell you a thing. Not a thing.
Most times they think it is CHIC to wear something like that because they think it is cool and they will be a hit with the YOUNG PEOPLE. She showed what she knows and doesn’t know.
What she knows is nothing.
What she doesn’t know speaks volumes.
She is just another hollywood has been trying to get attention and THAT we ALL KNOW.
I didn’t realize susan has been seraddin was their spokesperson. I don’t buy Macy’s either. I wonder when ole susan will face the fact she is over the hill and should jus probably stay out of the limelight now???
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