Why communism doesn't have as bad a name as Nazism

1. Communists murdered their own people; the Nazis murdered others. Under Mao about 70 million people died – nearly all in peacetime! – virtually all of them Chinese. Likewise, the approximately 30 million people Stalin had killed were nearly all Russians, and those who were not Russian, Ukrainians for example, were members of other Soviet nationalities.

   The Nazis, on the other hand, killed very few fellow Germans. Their victims were Jews, Slavs and members of other "non-Aryan" and "inferior" groups.

   "World opinion" – that vapid amoral concept – deems the murder of members of one's group far less noteworthy than the murder of outsiders. That is one reason why blacks killing millions of fellow blacks in the Congo right now elicits no attention from "world opinion." But if an Israeli soldier is charged with having killed a Gaza woman and two children, it makes the front page of world newspapers.

2. Communism is based on lovely sounding theories; Nazism is based on heinous sounding theories.

   Intellectuals, among whom are the people who write history, are seduced by words – so much so that deeds are deemed considerably less significant. Communism's words are far more intellectually and morally appealing than the moronic and vile racism of Nazism. The monstrous evils of communists have not been focused on nearly as much as the monstrous deeds of the Nazis. The former have been regularly dismissed as perversions of a beautiful doctrine (though Christians who committed evil in the name of Christianity are never regarded by these same people as having perverted a beautiful doctrine), whereas Nazi atrocities have been perceived (correctly) as the logical and inevitable results of Nazi ideology.

   This seduction by words while ignoring deeds has been a major factor in the ongoing appeal of the left to intellectuals. How else to explain the appeal of a Che Guevara or Fidel Castro to so many left-wing intellectuals, other than that they care more about beautiful words than about vile deeds?

3. Germans have thoroughly exposed the evils of Nazism, have taken responsibility for them and attempted to atone for them. Russians have not done anything similar regarding Lenin's or Stalin's horrors. Indeed, an ex-KGB man runs Russia, Lenin is still widely revered, and, in the words of University of London Russian historian Donald Rayfield, "people still deny by assertion or implication, Stalin's holocaust."

   Nor has China in any way exposed the greatest mass murderer and enslaver of them all, Mao Zedong. Mao remains revered in China.

   Until Russia and China acknowledge the evil their states have done under communism, communism's evils will remain less acknowledged by the world than the evils of the German state under Hitler.

4. Communism won, Nazism lost. And the winners write history.
   
   
5. Nothing matches the Holocaust. The rounding up of virtually every Jewish man, woman, child and baby on the European continent and sending them to die is unprecedented and unparalleled. The communists killed far more people than the Nazis did but never matched the Holocaust in the systemization of murder. The uniqueness of the Holocaust and the enormous attention paid to it since then has helped ensure that Nazism has a worse name than communism.
   
   
6. There is, simply put, widespread ignorance of communist atrocities compared to those of the Nazis. Whereas, both right and left loathe Nazism and teach its evil history, the left dominates the teaching profession, and therefore almost no one teaches communist atrocities. As much as intellectuals on the left may argue that they loathe Stalin or the North Korean regime, few on the left loathe communism. As the French put it, "pas d'enemis a la gauche," which in English means "no enemies on the left." This is certainly true of Chinese, Vietnamese and Cuban communism. Check your local university's courses and see how many classes are given on communist totalitarianism or mass murder compared to the number of classes about Nazism's immoral record.
   
   
7. Finally, in the view of the left, the last "good war" America fought was World War II, the war against German and Japanese fascism. The left does not regard America's wars against communist regimes as good wars. The war against Vietnamese communism is regarded as immoral and the war against Korean (and Chinese) communism is simply ignored.

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'Taken' and global sex traffic

"In his recent Fox thriller, 'Taken,' actor Liam Neeson tackles the inevitable result of that change, for sexual predators are the natural pedigree of sexually libertine societies. Neeson plays a divorced father who slashes through Europe, guns blazing, to rescue his young daughter. Kidnapped and drugged, she is auctioned off by aristocratic French sex slavers to wealthy Arab buyers during her Paris college vacation.

"'Taken' is brutally honest about the 'high end' of the growing global sex slave traffic. The girl's naïveté and her capture are wholly plausible and follow thousands of years of similar history when good men allow bad men to attain power. Only the happily ever-after rescue by 'dad with the "mad skills" of a super spy' is implausible."

Protests in Washington, Calif. call for war's end

"Anti-war activists said even though former President George W. Bush is out of power, they are disappointed with what they see as stalled action from Obama."

Well this is the change they voted for. Suck it in.

"'We all have a lot of confidence in (Obama),' she said, holding two signs that read 'Out of Iraq' and 'End the War.'"

Then why are you protesting? You should have stayed home.

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Venezuela's Chavez calls Obama "ignoramus"

"Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez said on Sunday his U.S. counterpart Barack Obama was at best an 'ignoramus' for saying the socialist leader exported terrorism and obstructed progress in Latin America."

Shocker: 'Global warming' simply no longer happening

"Two more studies – one by the Leibniz Institute of Marine Science and the Max Planck Institute of Meteorology in Germany and another by the University of Wisconsin – predict a slowing, or even a reversal of warming, for at least the next 10 to 20 years.

"The Arctic sea ice has grown more on a percentage basis this winter than it has since 1979.

"The number of polar bears has risen 25 percent in the past decade. There are 15,000 of them in the Arctic now, where 10 years ago there were 12,000.

"'The most recent global warming that began in 1977 is over, and the Earth has entered a new phase of global cooling,' says Don Easterbrook, professor of geology at Western Washington University in Bellingham, confidently. He maintains a switch in Pacific Ocean currents 'assures about three decades of global cooling. New solar data showing unusual absence of sun spots and changes in the sun’s magnetic field suggest ... the present episode of global cooling may be more severe than the cooling of 1945 to 1977.'

"Climatologist Joe D’Aleo of the International Climate and Environmental Change Assessment Project, says new data 'show that in five of the last seven decades since World War II, including this one, global temperatures have cooled while carbon dioxide has continued to rise.'

"'The data suggest cooling not warming in Earth's future,' he says."

What do the global temperatures and Obama's approval ratings have in common?

Both are steadily dropping.