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07-31-2015, 05:36 PM
The thought just came to my head and I was wondering what you guys think.
It's kind of ridiculous that there's this double standard when it comes to Nazism vs Communism.
If you go to a forum online and you put up a swastika as your avatar, they'd ask you to take it down. Meanwhile if you put up the hammer and sickle, not a problem. Obviously, this forum doesn't do that because it has the rules against political imagery so even if someone were to post the Republican or Democrat logo they'd be asked to take it down.
It's not just on the Internet, but in society too. Just look at Hollywood. They make a movie about Nazis, American History X (one of my favorite movies), but it's an anti-racism movie. The movie got Edward Norton an Oscar nomination, but he didn't win even though he deserved it. About 15 years earlier they made the movie Reds, a movie about an American journalist witnessing the Russian Revolution and wants to bring communism to the United States. It's 3 hours of glorifying communism. Warren Beatty won the Oscar for Best Director.
Then when it comes to actors, the double standard is there again (although this is more conservative vs liberal, rather than nazi vs communist). Conservative Mel Gibson makes anti-Semitic comments and he gets shunned from Hollywood. Uber-liberal Oliver Stone makes similar comments and he isn't struggling to find works, in fact he's working on an Edward Snowden film that comes out at the end of the year which will surly get a sh-tload of Oscar nominations. Conservative actors have to keep quiet about their beliefs while socialists like Sean Penn spread their radical views around.
Ok, now back to the Nazi vs Communist thing.
People are always saying that the Nazis were evil because of the Holocaust. 18 million dead, a third of those Jews.
Well what about the 40 million killed under Stalin's regime?
Or the 75 million under Mao Ze****?
How about Pol Pot killing a quarter of the population?
The communists were more murderous than the Nazis and yet society wants us to hate the Nazis like they're the face of evil, when the commies had a much higher body count.
Then there's also the fact that the communists could've nuked the United States at any moment during the Cold War. Sure, the Nazis didn't have that kind of technology during World War II, but you have to recognize that the communists were more likely to wipe us out than the Nazis.
I'm not saying that people need to ease off the Nazis, what I'm getting at is that the communists should be viewed at in the same extreme negative light as the Nazis. With Hilary Clinton's email scandal there's the real possibility that we could have socialist Bernie Sanders as presidential nominee, meanwhile you will never hear about a neo-Nazi getting a presidential nomination in the United States.
I know this thread will end up getting locked, or completely deleted but it should be kept up for a while for discussion on the topic before getting locked.
It's kind of ridiculous that there's this double standard when it comes to Nazism vs Communism.
If you go to a forum online and you put up a swastika as your avatar, they'd ask you to take it down. Meanwhile if you put up the hammer and sickle, not a problem. Obviously, this forum doesn't do that because it has the rules against political imagery so even if someone were to post the Republican or Democrat logo they'd be asked to take it down.
It's not just on the Internet, but in society too. Just look at Hollywood. They make a movie about Nazis, American History X (one of my favorite movies), but it's an anti-racism movie. The movie got Edward Norton an Oscar nomination, but he didn't win even though he deserved it. About 15 years earlier they made the movie Reds, a movie about an American journalist witnessing the Russian Revolution and wants to bring communism to the United States. It's 3 hours of glorifying communism. Warren Beatty won the Oscar for Best Director.
Then when it comes to actors, the double standard is there again (although this is more conservative vs liberal, rather than nazi vs communist). Conservative Mel Gibson makes anti-Semitic comments and he gets shunned from Hollywood. Uber-liberal Oliver Stone makes similar comments and he isn't struggling to find works, in fact he's working on an Edward Snowden film that comes out at the end of the year which will surly get a sh-tload of Oscar nominations. Conservative actors have to keep quiet about their beliefs while socialists like Sean Penn spread their radical views around.
Ok, now back to the Nazi vs Communist thing.
People are always saying that the Nazis were evil because of the Holocaust. 18 million dead, a third of those Jews.
Well what about the 40 million killed under Stalin's regime?
Or the 75 million under Mao Ze****?
How about Pol Pot killing a quarter of the population?
The communists were more murderous than the Nazis and yet society wants us to hate the Nazis like they're the face of evil, when the commies had a much higher body count.
Then there's also the fact that the communists could've nuked the United States at any moment during the Cold War. Sure, the Nazis didn't have that kind of technology during World War II, but you have to recognize that the communists were more likely to wipe us out than the Nazis.
I'm not saying that people need to ease off the Nazis, what I'm getting at is that the communists should be viewed at in the same extreme negative light as the Nazis. With Hilary Clinton's email scandal there's the real possibility that we could have socialist Bernie Sanders as presidential nominee, meanwhile you will never hear about a neo-Nazi getting a presidential nomination in the United States.
I know this thread will end up getting locked, or completely deleted but it should be kept up for a while for discussion on the topic before getting locked.