On Apr 5, 2006, at 10:42 AM, Ray Saintonge wrote:
I wasn't aware that Americans were unique in thinking pedophiles were morally comparable to communists, although to be perfectly fair, pedophiles have never committed acts of genocide.
Well, capitalists have as well, and I'm betting money on some paedophiles being capitalists /*duck*
Why should you have to duck when someone else has made such an extraordinarily stupid straw man statement.
Not to belabor this meta-debate, but it's a simple matter of historical fact that communists have committed large-scale mass murder. Tacit implications that communism is "okay" is as offensive to many people as implying that fascism is "okay". Since neither question is of direct relevance here, let's just agree, for the sake of avoiding conflict, not to say nice things about controversial political ideologies.