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Scootaloo

(25,699 posts)
15. I asked whether DU would support the russian left if they stood up
Sat Feb 28, 2015, 11:54 PM
Feb 2015

You said that you don't think the left has ever been associated with justice, human rights and progressive values. You follow through on that with a rant about Stalinism, leftist terrorists, Muammar Ghaddafi, just a litany of disjointed names thatyou are defining the very concept of "leftism" by.

I didn't feel like quoting the entire paragraph (it was a large block of miserable), so "evils of the left" while not a direct quote, is a completely apt and accurate paraphrase of what you said. You are in fact bolstering that premise in this very post:

and that every "leftist" or "far left" movement I have studied so far in no way supported progressive values or human rights


Obviously in your eyes, left = evil. This is why I call you a reactionary, because you make it very clear that you have a reflexive, outright hateful reaction towards the left, and obviously cannot conceive of leftism in any but a purely and completely negative light.



and no, I'm not in a rage. I'm simply telling you that since you clearly hate the left, Boris Nemtsov is not a person you should be exploiting for your position.

I am, however, kind of disgusted.
Oh shite! Cha Feb 2015 #1
So, question. Scootaloo Feb 2015 #2
To so easily compare Occupy, Arab Spring, Latin american leftists & the Russian anti-Putin forces uhnope Feb 2015 #3
Of course there's a variety on the left. It's made of people, not corporations my friend Scootaloo Feb 2015 #5
um, if you're trying to say Soviet Communism was not connected to the "left" uhnope Feb 2015 #12
I'm not condemning him, far from it. Scootaloo Feb 2015 #13
quote marks are to be used for quoting, sir, not for putting words in someone's mouth uhnope Feb 2015 #14
I asked whether DU would support the russian left if they stood up Scootaloo Feb 2015 #15
you might be confusing terms. and you should go back and reread what I said uhnope Mar 2015 #16
You wanted quotes? Scootaloo Mar 2015 #17
Either you're reading what you want into my words, or you just want to personally insult uhnope Mar 2015 #18
And before the Communists, the aristocracy led by the Tsar and Tsarina did it. JDPriestly Feb 2015 #6
thank you! Yes. Tsars too. The memo you mention is to be found in a couple threads on DU uhnope Mar 2015 #19
But George W. Bush Told Us He was a Good Man? Chasstev365 Feb 2015 #4
Murdering people to further one's goals. Training to be an American CEO? n/t jtuck004 Feb 2015 #7
Don Corleone would be proud FLPanhandle Feb 2015 #8
I'm sure all this speculaton will be laid to rest once the "Putin Commission" dflprincess Feb 2015 #9
We Have a Winner! Nicely done! Chasstev365 Feb 2015 #11
SOO, broke back puttie, penndragon69 Feb 2015 #10
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