Posted on 06/11/2025 1:16:56 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
As Hamas supporters hurl bogus charges against Israel.
Last month, Megha Vemuri, president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology class of 2025, denounced the “genocidal Israeli military” and contended that the MIT community “would never tolerate a genocide.” Such proclamations, widely repeated on Ivy League campuses, invite a look at the actual genocide going on 50 years ago.
In April, 1975, troops of the communist Khmer Rouge occupied Cambodia’s capital of Phom Penh. One of the last correspondents to leave was David Aikman of Time magazine, author of “Cambodia: An Experiment in Genocide.” As Aikman recalled:
After a few hours, the black-uniformed troops began firing into the air. It was a signal for Phnom Penh’s entire population, swollen by refugees to some three million, to abandon the city. Young and old, the well and the sick, businessmen and beggars, were all ordered at gunpoint onto the streets and highways leading into the countryside.
Among the first pitiful sights on the road, witnessed by several Westerners, were patients from Pnomh Penh’s grossly overcrowded hospitals, perhaps 20,000 people all told. Even the dying, the maimed and the pregnant were herded out stumbling into the streets. Several pathetic cases were pushed along the road in their beds by relatives, the intravenous bottles still attached to the bedframes In some hospitals, foreign doctors were ordered to abandon their patients in mid-operation. It took two days before the Bruegel-like multitude was fully under way, shuffling, limping and crawling to a designated appointment with revolution.
With almost no preparations for so enormous an exodus —how could there have been with a war on?—thousands died along the route, the wounded from loss of blood, the weak from exhaustion, and others by execution, usually because they had not been quick enough to obey a Khmer Rouge order...
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it was largely Germany’s academia that led or enabled the rise of history’s premier, real Nazi genocidal state there
there’s something about the college environment that facilitates and produces bigotry
and you see it today in some college unions as well as college administrations
maybe it is simply the insular nature of the enterprise as viewed through Elias Canetti’s “Crowds and Power” lens?
or? whatever, it is very dangerous — academia for all its traditionally-exaulted aura is still a very dangerous institution in society, at least potentially so, and must be closely watched, scrutinized on an ongoing basis if we are to maintain our republic and individual liberties as a generally-”free society”
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The population of Gaza went from 650,000 in 1990 to 2,300,000 in 2023.
This is the opposite of genocide.
No. It was democide (death by government), not genocide. Unless you believe the Cambodians committed auto-genocide.
Communist regimes are the mega-kings of democide.
Pol Pot & Friends were fans of Mao, but didn’t think he went far enough. Instead of just “turning the triangle upside down” they chopped off the top of the triangle.
I detest the way the word “genocide” is bandied about these days to mean anything from a garden variety war crime to a nasty massacre, or misused in the cases where democide is called genocide. It robs the word of its power and true meaning.
I remember when Phom Penh fell to the commies. American university students and radical hippies had a candle light march celebrating the fall of Cambodia.
But remember, Obama’s buddy, BILL AYERS said that up to 25 MILLION Americans would have to be liquidated when the commies took over the USA.
Actually, Pol Pot & Pals were educated by the French and got their sicko commie ideas in Paris.
Sorry, you can’t pin this on the Nazis or Germans. The Khmer Rouge were commies and great admirers of Mao (see my previous post on this thread).
That was when the US population was 250 million. 25 million = 10%,
Now that the US population is 330 million, I am pretty sure he would want to murder 33 million, at least.
Before the communist Khmer Rouge took over Cambodia the American left was pleading to just “Give Peace a Chance” in Cambodia.
And once that happened and the Killing Fields began and millions of helpless Cambodians were murdered by the communist Khmer Rouge, the American Left then turned a deaf ear to the testimonies of escaped Cambodians to Thailand of epic torture, starvation, and mass murder by the KR.
The left claimed that this eye witness testimony was just “CIA propaganda” and never happened.
And something similar will happen in Ukraine once Russia conquers it. The “Peace” will be the peace of the mass grave or the slave labor camp for the Ukrainian people.
Wait and see.
Uh, no. “The left” is now all war warmongers, not the peaceniks of the 1970s. They love our proxy war in Ukraine and don’t care how many Ukrainians die.
HI
I wasn’t thinking of pol pot but thank you for the info
yes, France... well, it is (unfortunately) sinking fast anyway so I won’t go there
cheer and thanks
If not Pol Pot and his henchmen, then who?
Most Americans don’t appreciate the inroads the commies made into French academia in the 1920s and 1930s and how they managed to remain entrenched there.
France’s former colonies of Indochina (Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia) all went commie in the 1960s/1970s. No surprise there if you know the history. It had zero to do with Germans or Nazis, but everything to do with commies.
The grand trick the lefties played right after WWII was to label conservatives as “the right”. Yes, conservatives were very much opposed to both communism and National Socialism (aka Nazis), but, as the Nazis/Fascists were just a bit to the “right” of commies, they claimed conservatives were “the right” and analogous to Fascists and Nazis. Slick trick, eh? In reality, both the commies and and Nazis (although the most bitter of enemies) were on the left, but that’s somehow all been forgotten.
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