Comments on: Anita Dunn’s Favorite Philosopher Mao Tse-Tung http://prevarication.net/2009/10/anita-dunns-favorite-philosopher-mao-tse-tung/ Dedicated to the exposure and preservation of prevarication in public life. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:58:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Jonathan Trenn http://prevarication.net/2009/10/anita-dunns-favorite-philosopher-mao-tse-tung/comment-page-1/#comment-428 Jonathan Trenn Mon, 28 Dec 2009 16:32:52 +0000 http://prevarication.net/?p=669#comment-428 What amazes me about speeches like this is that while I'm convinced that she was speaking tongue-in-cheek, it's that it doesn't create controversy. It's OK to say things like this tongue-in-cheek, whereas it's not OK to do so with Hitler. Both are beyond the pale. Dunn should have used someone else to make her point. But she, like many, don't see totalitarian communists as necessarily being all that bad. Granted, we fought against Hitler in a World War. But it seems Mao has turned into first and foremost a important historical figure of the 20th Century and nothing more. The millions of deaths are considered to be an afterthought. What amazes me about speeches like this is that while I’m convinced that she was speaking tongue-in-cheek, it’s that it doesn’t create controversy. It’s OK to say things like this tongue-in-cheek, whereas it’s not OK to do so with Hitler. Both are beyond the pale. Dunn should have used someone else to make her point. But she, like many, don’t see totalitarian communists as necessarily being all that bad.

Granted, we fought against Hitler in a World War. But it seems Mao has turned into first and foremost a important historical figure of the 20th Century and nothing more. The millions of deaths are considered to be an afterthought.

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