Posted by
VBushmills on Tuesday, October 20, 2009 3:43:49 PM
Portland, 20 Oct 2009
Since Mao's on everyone's mind these days, I think it would be wise to draw some distinctions between the type of genocide as carried out by Hitler, and the genocide as carried out by Stalin and Mao. They were different, and by the way, no one's bothered to check in on Pol Pot or the Hutus or the measure of the men who stood by and did nothing.
Hitler's genocide was fomented by a deep, deep hatred...not just for Jews, but also the weak of mind, Slavs (but I repeat myself, at least in the Teutonic vision of things) and the truly filthy (Gypsies). That it was carried out with such efficiency, calling on resources inside some of the most respected of German professions, e.g, law, medicine, civil service, raises other issues, but it still was built on really one man's hatred.
On the other hand, Stalin's and Mao's murders were, well, ordinary. Any Commie up and down the line would have seen the political necessity for those deaths and made the same orders. There was no no hatred, no vanity, not even megalomania.
There was only indifference.
That Obama has surrounded himself with Maoists raises some interesting considerations. He both hates and "indiffers".
BC