12-21-2016, 07:51 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-21-2016, 09:58 PM by FireIceTalon.)
Quote:Odd how holocaust denial is vilified, but Stalin and Mao revisionists are viewed only as misinformed cranks. A reminder to our first amendment loving US readers; Holocuast denial is considered a crime in many places.
There is nothing odd about it. Holocaust denial is blatantly racist and falls under hate speech, no matter how you slice it. Supporting Stalin or Mao ideologically or even their policies, is not racist, regardless of how disagreeable you find them. It isn't the same at all, and to compare the two as even being in the same ballpark just indirectly panders to pro-fascist/Nazi rhetorics of 'free speech', as well as the currently fashionable but intellectually dishonest right-wing notion that fascism is the same as communism. But I think you know this very well already.
And if it makes you feel any better, there are places where communist symbology are or have been banned in the past. Further, in many of these countries, neo-fascist parties are perfectly acceptable. And for the same US 1st Amendment loving readers here, do keep in mind there was a time in this supposed free-speech loving country, that being openly communist was banned - in both the early 1920's, as well as the somewhat more famous era of McCarthyism following WW2.
Even today, left-wing demonstrations, movements and protests tend to be far more policed, and demonized in the media, than right-wing ones. That probably has something to do with the fact that America and many of its western allies love to decry fascism, but in reality, have a soft spot for it. All this, from a country that is guilty of nearly endless human rights violations from its inception to this very moment, responsible for terrorism and counter-terrorism en masse while having the audacity to paint all those who resist its hegemony as 'terrorists', all the while being the imperialist front runner for the most economically and socially exploitative system ever contrived. The hypocrisy is astounding.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bans_on_Communist_symbols
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"Your very ideas are but the outgrowth of conditions of your bourgeois production and bourgeois property, just as your jurisprudence is but the will of your class, made into law for all, a will whose essential character and direction are determined by the economic conditions of the existence of your class." - Marx (addressing the bourgeois)
"Your very ideas are but the outgrowth of conditions of your bourgeois production and bourgeois property, just as your jurisprudence is but the will of your class, made into law for all, a will whose essential character and direction are determined by the economic conditions of the existence of your class." - Marx (addressing the bourgeois)