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[Carl E. Anderson]

On tor 4 dec 1997 02.37 +0100 "Daniel Wikdahl" <mpj95wid at MC.HIK.SE> wrote:

> Carl writes:
>>     As a side note, Stalin's atrocities would have made good Cold War
>>propaganda in the US ... except that at the height of the Cold War, the
>>right-wingers in the US gov't probably approved of killing the kinds of
>>people Stalin killed! :/
>
> Can you expound this?

     Well, in the 1950s Senator McCarthy managed to bring the US about as
close to Naziism as we've managed in the 20th century (setting aside, for
the moment, the US's genocidal policies towards Native Americans in
preceding centuries, black slavery, etc.)

     He made big lists of "suspected communists".  Wouldn't taken much to
have to have started actualling killings, I think--less than most
Americans realize, or are willing to admit.  And there are plenty of
right-wing politicians in the US now who would probably happily do away
with all the gays, blacks, hispanics, left-handed librarians, and
gods-know-what-else.

     Mind you, there are plenty of left-wing types that probably no less
dangerous :) if for different reasons.  Soon members of various
ethnicities will be getting shot for telling jokes about _themselves_ ...

--
Carl Edlund Anderson
Dept. of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, & Celtic
St. John's College, University of Cambridge
mailto:cea20 at cus.cam.ac.uk
http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~carl/