Is there anyone on erf who was surprised that the NYT would have high praise for the most murderous communist evah?
The Cultural Revolution bloodbath is the NYT’s wet dream
For all its flaws... at least some of us would get to be the elite and Lord it over you deserving-of-nothing-good serfs! /s
Flee at last!
Flee at last!
Thank Mao the Mighty!
We Flee at last!..................
It was described as “very bad”.
So bad , in fat, people starved and some resorted to cannibalism.
For all its flaws, AIDS is a fantastic weight loss plan.
For all it’s flaws, Communism promoted sky-rocketing vodka sales and consumption.
Next in the NTY op-ed series: “How being on Death Row helped me lose weight”.
Ask them how it’s working out in Venezuela.
Here is one:"China is a very capitalistic society. That is one of the most striking things when visiting the nation. It is Communist and very, very capitalistic. "
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!
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!
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.