The goal of this to show that they are actually good people? Because… showing a few wrongly attributed quotes doesn’t help their image or the historical context.
The goal is to debunk verifiable lies fed to you by the West. The post makes no mention of how good or evil they were, only that they definitely did not say these very specific evil things. If it happens to cause you to reconsider your conclusion that these people are evil, a conclusion also fed to you by the same Western propaganda, that’s your business.
The afterglow of christian domination over western thought can be seen in the way our first and most important learned behavior is to separate “good people” from “bad people” as if anyone is purely one or the other, as if these are categories that carry any meaning of their own, and as if what makes a person helpful or harmful, kind or malicious, is some kind of innate essence and not a combination of their circumstances, intent, position and effectiveness.
The goal of this to show that they are actually good people? Because… showing a few wrongly attributed quotes doesn’t help their image or the historical context.
The goal is to debunk verifiable lies fed to you by the West. The post makes no mention of how good or evil they were, only that they definitely did not say these very specific evil things. If it happens to cause you to reconsider your conclusion that these people are evil, a conclusion also fed to you by the same Western propaganda, that’s your business.
I think the point is, don’t trust what anti-communists claim they said; read what they actually said.
The afterglow of christian domination over western thought can be seen in the way our first and most important learned behavior is to separate “good people” from “bad people” as if anyone is purely one or the other, as if these are categories that carry any meaning of their own, and as if what makes a person helpful or harmful, kind or malicious, is some kind of innate essence and not a combination of their circumstances, intent, position and effectiveness.
But also look at this picture of Ho Chi Minh
this should be an album kover
Imagine being the hostile to countering lies