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I am a very vocal person when it comes to my hatred of communism and socialism. I think this rare outspoken tendency stems from the fact that I had/have a rabid fascination with history while growing up. I was always taught year after year in history classes about how heinous the holocaust was, how terrible WWI was, and the horrible reality of FDR concentration camps for Japanese Americans.
These are all very important things to learn about, but when it comes to communism, there is barely any mention of it's crimes at all in any of my schooling. The only reason I knew from a very early age about the greatness of the lie of communism, is because my lust for reading about history in general. I was rather shocked that this wasn't taught in schools, considering communism has ended more lives than every other totalitarian regime combined since it's creation.
Hence why I could never understand the inexplicable amount of people either attending or working at school who idolize such people as che -a**hole- geuevara. Because the only good commie....ah, you know the rest. Anyways, here's a couple links to some cool and learned people who make a much better point of it than I:
The Volokh Conspiracy: Victims of Communism Day
The Smallest Minority and his post on the topic
I am a very vocal person when it comes to my hatred of communism and socialism. I think this rare outspoken tendency stems from the fact that I had/have a rabid fascination with history while growing up. I was always taught year after year in history classes about how heinous the holocaust was, how terrible WWI was, and the horrible reality of FDR concentration camps for Japanese Americans.
These are all very important things to learn about, but when it comes to communism, there is barely any mention of it's crimes at all in any of my schooling. The only reason I knew from a very early age about the greatness of the lie of communism, is because my lust for reading about history in general. I was rather shocked that this wasn't taught in schools, considering communism has ended more lives than every other totalitarian regime combined since it's creation.
Hence why I could never understand the inexplicable amount of people either attending or working at school who idolize such people as che -a**hole- geuevara. Because the only good commie....ah, you know the rest. Anyways, here's a couple links to some cool and learned people who make a much better point of it than I:
The Volokh Conspiracy: Victims of Communism Day
The Smallest Minority and his post on the topic
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