Posted on 09/27/2017 6:55:18 AM PDT by Maceman
If you think there is an upside to Communism, at all, you’re doing it wrong.
So it should come as no surprise that the New York Times released this op-ed:
For all its flaws, the Communist revolution taught Chinese women to dream big http://nyti.ms/2wNBFqo 8:11 PM - Sep 25, 2017
The story of an across-the-board elevation of women’s status under Mao contains crucial caveats. nytimes.com 3,449 3,449 Replies 274 274 Retweets 390 390 likes Twitter Ads info and privacy
From the NYT:
Researchers also observed that after marriage factory women often experienced slower career advancement than men as they became saddled with domestic responsibilities that left them with little time to learn new skills and take on extra work, both prerequisites for promotion. State services that promised to ease their burden, like public child care centers, were in reality few and far between. Unlike their counterparts in developed countries, Chinese women didn’t have labor-saving household appliances, since Mao’s economic policies prioritized heavy industry over the production of consumer products like washing machines and dishwashers. But these women were able to dream!
Are you kidding us?
(Excerpt) Read more at twitchy.com ...
For all its flaws , human mortality does eventually take care of fools like people who believe in communism.
Even just a few years ago, this kind of article would have just slid right by.
The may have been some that might have written letters to the editor and maybe even one or two might have been printed. Or possibly an article penned in response, written by a different writer, and published in a different newspaper.
Today. Ha!
With social media, the response can be immediate and overwhelming.
A real good example is RatherGate! The false Rather story on Bush which was exposed right here on FR!
The #FAKENEWS msm, written by their #FAKEAMERICANS, is getting exposed so thoroughly that they are becoming a public embarrassement. It is so fun to watch!
The New York Times has a dark history when it comes to covering for communists.
Shame on the New York Times.... ONE NAME: Walter Duranty
http://www.weeklystandard.com/pulitzer-winning-lies/article/4040
AT LONG LAST a Pulitzer Prize committee is looking into the possibility that the Pulitzer awarded to Walter Duranty, the New York Times Moscow correspondent whose dispatches covered up Stalin’s infamies, might be revoked.
In order to assist in their researches, I am downloading here some of the lies contained in those dispatches, lies which the New York Times has never repudiated with the same splash as it accorded Jayson Blair’s comparatively trivial lies:
“There is no famine or actual starvation nor is there likely to be.”
—New York Times, Nov. 15, 1931, page 1
“Any report of a famine in Russia is today an exaggeration or malignant propaganda.”
—New York Times, August 23, 1933
“Enemies and foreign critics can say what they please. Weaklings and despondents at home may groan under the burden, but the youth and strength of the Russian people is essentially at one with the Kremlin’s program, believes it worthwhile and supports it, however hard be the sledding.”
—New York Times, December 9, 1932, page 6
“You can’t make an omelet without breaking eggs.”
—New York Times, May 14, 1933, page 18
“There is no actual starvation or deaths from starvation but there is widespread mortality from diseases due to malnutrition.”
—New York Times, March 31, 1933, page 13
I would like to add another Duranty quote, not in his dispatches, which is reported in a memoir by Zara Witkin, a Los Angeles architect, who lived in the Soviet Union during the 1930s. (”An American Engineer in Stalin’s Russia: The Memoirs of Zara Witkin, 1932-1934,” University of California Press ). The memoirist describes an evening during which the Moscow correspondents were discussing how to get out the story about the Stalin-made Russian famine. To get around the censorship, the UP’s Eugene Lyons was telephoning the dire news of the famine to his New York office but the was ordered to stop because it was antagonizing the Kremlin. Ralph Barnes, the New York Herald Tribune reporter, turned to Duranty and asked him what he was going to write. Duranty replied:
Nothing. What are a few million dead Russians in a situation like this? Quite unimportant. This is just an incident in the sweeping historical changes here. I think the entire matter is exaggerated.
And this was at a time when peasants in Ukraine were dying of starvation at the rate of 25,000 a day.
For all its flaws Stalin’s Holodomor become one of the World’s most effective weight loss plan ever!
Lol. Very true.
Yet they support it without question!
FOOLS!
Board Member of the company making 'AYDS'; "OH, G0d, they named a fatal disease after us, why couldn't they call it 'Wrigleys'"?!!
Reading the current and older New York Times commentary one is struck by their total willingness to dismiss individual human lives as just cogs in a more important communist machine.
LMAO!
Kaepernick might be able to get a job with the NYT....
I posted the following on another thread concerning this NYT op-ed:
I’m glad this story referenced Frank Dikötter’s book on Mao’s mid-1950s Great Leap Forward and the subsequent economic collapse and mass starvation.
I read “Mao’s Great Famine” maybe two years ago and it was a real eye-opener about a topic little known to Americans.
Dikötter estimates the death toll at about 45 million, if I recall correctly, which is high compared to other historians’ estimates. But his book is well-sourced, detailed, and entirely credible.
Millions died for no reason other than the power lust and, even more, the rank incompetence of the Chicom leadership. Agricultural policy was being decided by Marxist ideologues who had not the slightest concept of how crops were raised.
Dikötter explains that a typical scenario would be for the national leadership to establish a quota of X units of rice to be requisitioned by the central government. The provincial leadership, wanting to show their dedication to Mao, would up the ante to 2X. The district leadership then would show their loyalty by going for 3X.
And so on and so on ... until there was nothing left for the peasants to eat but grass.
I have no idea about Dikötter’s personal politics, but I’ve read enough history to get a sense of who has an agenda to push and who is trying to render an accurate historical report.
By all means read this author.
bolshevism sucks bump
“For all its flaws, the Communist revolution...”
I know this because of my family history - my great grandfather had everything he ever worked for stolen by the Communists (a thriving water delivery business, 14 rental houses that he and his sons built themselves, and 3/4 of his own home to other families placed there by the Communists). But, of course, that wasn’t enough - the bastards dragged him into prison in 1937 and beat this 74-year-old man so badly that he died almost immediately upon release...IOW, they murdered him. Then the rest of his family that was behind the Iron Curtain got to spend 75 years in a gigantic open-air prison, always afraid of when the NKVD/KGB goons would come and take them away.
No, NYT asswipes, you don’t get a free pass. You, as a group, have been pro-Communist since at least Walter Duranty’s time (when he utterly white-washed the oceans of blood upon which Stalin built the USSR). You are SICK BASTARDS, social engineers no different than Hitler, Lenin, Stalin or Mao (well, except that at least they had the courage of their convictions - you don’t, you just cheerlead others who actually DO something, you cowards). You are complicit in their crimes, and it is one of my most earnest hopes that you all pay a price - both here on Earth, and in the Afterlife. YOU are responsible for a great deal of the misery that Communism has inflicted upon humanity, because YOU purposely and with malice aforethought disarmed, impeded and ridiculed the opposition to this monstrous ideology and its chief practitioners.
FU NYT asswipes!
“NYT staff would be the first executed as the pawns of capitalist propaganda and an enemy of the people.”
Cultural Revolutions are great if you are the one running them. Think what all those little newsroom interns would have to do for you if they depended on you for food and political protection.
Ding, ding, ding - we have a thread winnah!
The NY Slimes has a long history of being Communist loving bastards. They couldn’t keep their lips off of Stalin’s ass while Ukrainians starved to death by SOB Stalin’s wrath in the 30’s. It takes evil and vile subhumans to turn a blind eye to millions dead and dying. Communism and its side ‘isms are responsible for hundreds of millions of deaths,the most horrid living conditions on the planet and is responsible for most wars. Those who apologize for and promote it like the Slimes are just as barbaric.
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