>>At 05:35 PM 7/12/00 -0400, Doug Henwood wrote:
>>Nathan Newman wrote:
>
>>See http://www.anticommunism.org/
>
>>Wow. Geraldo Rivera's a Commie. I had no idea. Does Jack Welch know?
>>Doug
>JESUS. did you read this bit of absolutely positively nothing? check
it out:
>"If you have ever wondered why the Left (including American Liberals)
are
>slow to condemn Communism's atrocities, it is because they share a
>fundamental belief in human nature and the role of institutions in
shaping
>human attitudes and behaviors. "
>i'm sorry, but i don't believe this says anything does it? what
exactly
>are these beliefs and institutions?
>jesus. it's amazing to me that anyone would write this shit and expect
it
>to pass for something serious. it's enough for the opening line to say
>utterly NOTHING and trust that it will be interpreted as a meaningful
>statement. and it will, it will just be assumed by the reader that
>whatever it is, it's not good.
>christ.
>kelley
The Usenet newsgroups have been invaded for the past few years by self-proclaimed right-wingers who do nothing but spout this kind of shit.
The Nation recently had an article on David Horowitz quoting him to the effect that the Right should adopt "Stalinist" methods against the Democrats, lumping them with the left, with communism, with socialism, with liberalism. It's a kind of name calling where the Right gets to define the dirty words. Horowitz claims that that is what the "Left" did in the 60s and 70s.
He seems to have convinced morons like Scaife, Simmons, Wyly, and so on. That is pretty much what is happening.
The morons haven't noticed that if that is what the Left did, as Horowitz claims, the Left committed suicide, and that the same tactic should kill the Right.
Let's hope soon.
-- John K. Taber