Yes Roger, but why did the news broadcaster make that stupid decision? They made it because they thought she had a case? Why did they think she had a case? Because, according to me, it is PC to give certain members of society holding certain views more rope than other members.
Robert Conquest wrote a definitive history ofthe Gulags. But it was ignored for years, until the fall of the Soviet Empire, because the PC thing was to see the US and the Soviet Union as morally equivalent, one as bad as the other. Stalin may have killed 30 million but the Americans had Senator McCarthy. So it's six of one to half a dozen of the other. Do you see what I'm getting at. PC is something you do without thinking. When I was young everybody who was anybody thought Chairman Mao was a regular guy. On what evidence? You didn't need evidence. You just knew. I remember arguing with somebody about this. He just dismissedany evidence as American propaganda. When I was of the left (when I was eighteen or so) I KNEW the USA was the Great Satan. How did I know? I just did. Who was the aggressor during the Cuban crisis? Mad Kennedy. Of course he was.
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