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Not to sound pro-Nazi or anything, but I was thinking on this after Mark Shea revisited a post by Simcha Fisher denouncing Holocaust deniers<\/a>. \u00a0Now, for me, denying the Holocaust is as stupid as denying the moon landings. \u00a0But for me, it\u2019s no more evil than ignoring or denying the Communist horrors of the last century, which are often downplayed if not outright ignored. Or the Armenian genocide which is open to academic debate and political denial. \u00a0Or even the meaner aspects of the non-Western world in pre-imperialism days, or the atrocities committed by those cultures as they battled Western Imperialism. \u00a0To me, denying any of those things, or downplaying them for whatever reason, is just as stupid, or just as wrong. <\/p>\n

But then, I don\u2019t believe that the only evil of the 20th century belonged to the Nazis or Americans over the skies of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. \u00a0I believe evil did quite well in other corners of the world. \u00a0Denying, qualifying, excusing, or whatever in those other cases is just as bad as ignoring or denying the terror of the Holocaust. <\/p>\n

So I saw this and it made me wonder<\/a>. \u00a0The headline is championing a soccer league for embracing its anti-Nazi past. \u00a0And I thought on that for a minute. \u00a0If you are anti-Nazi, it\u2019s hero time. \u00a0If you are proudly and passionately anti-Communist? \u00a0Why, it\u2019s Archie Bunker time, at best. \u00a0Or Jo McCarthy time. \u00a0Or blacklist time. \u00a0You\u2019re really the baddie. \u00a0Why? \u00a0Why the difference? \u00a0Why is standing against Communism likely to get you ignored or argued with at best, and downright condemned at worst? \u00a0Why are those actors and writers who actually loved Communism and the whole Communist ideal treated like martyrs and heroes, while actors who had even some connection to the Nazis, even if they later renounced everything, dogged by it their entire life, if not ostracized and shunned?<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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All the gold in the world didn\u2019t keep him from having to prove he helped Jews escape the Nazis,
and still his Nazi ties plagued him through his career<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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Blacklist hero and closet Communist. \u00a0Just watch 1960\u2019s Spartacus <\/i>
through a Communist lens and it all makes sense.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
I don\u2019t know. \u00a0There are probably reasons, but some of them might be unknown, part of ulterior motives and therefore unable to be proven, or something. \u00a0But I\u2019ve noticed it over the years. \u00a0And it\u2019s not changed, even in the Catholic blogosphere.\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Not to sound pro-Nazi or anything, but I was thinking on this after Mark Shea revisited a post by Simcha Fisher denouncing Holocaust deniers. \u00a0Now, for me, denying the Holocaust is as stupid as denying the moon landings. \u00a0But for me, it\u2019s no more evil than ignoring or denying the Communist horrors of the last […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nAn observation<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Not to sound pro-Nazi or anything, but I was thinking on this after Mark Shea revisited a post by Simcha Fisher denouncing Holocaust deniers.  Now,\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" 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