Philip Welch wrote:
On Apr 6, 2006, at 1:27 AM, Ray Saintonge wrote:
Now, in a pretence of innocence, you admonish those who would say "nice" things about controversial political ideologies, but do not apply the same standards to those who wouild say offensive things about the same ideologies.
Ideally we should drop the subject entirely.
Yes, I can drop it. I'm not interested in pursuing this ad nauseam.
Then you want to drop the issue when you feel that you are ahead in the damage. The historical fact that some communists have committed large-scale mass murder does not justify your innuendo that all supporters of a communistic economy have done so.
We could say the same thing about fascism, but you don't find anyone playing apologist for *that* ideology.
Yes, we could say the same thing about some fascist regimes, and someone thus interested would have been perfectly justified in raising such a defence once that term was secondarily introduced.
It's perfectly obvious to absolutely everyone that no-one was being an apologist in this thread by setting the record straight.
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