Rotwang wrote: “No doubt, there is someone left in America who still fears Communism and rock music, the Twin Terrors of 1953. That individual was probably not going to vote for Obama anyway, but I’m sure that he or she will feel validated to know that teenage music is still subversive and still a threat to our Precious Bodily Fluids.”
Rock music = communism? Wow. Thank you for illustrating the flaws in “progressive” logic for me. Let’s see what happens if we use the same logic in other areas of life:
EXAMPLE 1: Riding rollercoasters excites teenagers, and so does crack cocaine. If rollercoasters are clean and safe fun, then crack cocaine is also clean and safe fun. The parents wouldn’t ride rollercoasters or smoke crack just because they hate all things exciting. They are always wrong!
EXAMPLE 2: Talent and hard work can make you rich, but so can an armed robbery. If we punish those who commit robberies, we must also punish those who got rich through talent and hard work. This is what communists believe anyway. Alternatively, Hollywood believes that to glamorize criminals is just as legitimate as to glamorize talent (I must admit they’d never glamorize hard work). These are just two opposite sides of the same fake coin.
Flawed logic must be an important part (if not the reason) of becoming a “progressive.”
Perhaps realizing the weakness of the argument, Rotwang adds a personal attack: “I think Mr. Atbashian needs to go punch a Turk, just for the therapy. Fight the REAL enemy, Oleg!”
Rotwang obviously believes that everyone who has an Armenian-sounding last name must hate Turks because in 1915 the Turkish government massacred over a million Armenians in an organized genocide against Christian minorities (Greeks and Assyrians were also among the victims).
It is true that all of my grandfather’s family was slaughtered in 1915, in an Armenian village near the city of Kars. Go on, laugh about it if that makes you feel superior. But how does that invalidate my criticism of the radical Left in America and its connection to the Obama campaign?
Would you try to disparage an author with a Jewish last name by saying, “go punch a Nazi, just for the therapy”? But wait, the “progressives” do it all the time nowadays, only not in those words, and instead of Nazis they use Arabs and Muslims. They even developed a special word for the Jewish authors they disagree with: “Neocons.” The meaning of “Neocon” is this: “A Jew or a suspect Jew whom I really hate and would like to argue but I’m too feeble-minded to beat him on the issues, so I’ll just harass him by insinuating that his Jewishness invalidates everything he says.”
There is a left-leaning rock band named System of a Down, and their music sounds awfully angry. Now we know why: all their members are a Armenians. I suggest you also tell them to go punch a Turk just for the therapy. But you wouldn’t.
In the “progressive” mind, one’s ethnic origin or the shade of skin must determine the content of one’s character, political leanings, and the objects of love and hate. This is what the doctrine of multiculturalism and the practice of “community organizing” are all about. But wait, didn’t the Nazis also believe that one’s ethnic origin and the shape of one’s skull determines one’s character? Once again, these are the opposite sides of the same fake coin. It’s called collectivism.
Finally, Rotwang suggests that communism was never a REAL threat, alluding to Dr. Strangelove movie. Why did he then feel so strongly about defending it that he immediately wrote a comment and posted it in the middle of the night?
Ever since the Venona files were disclosed in 1995, no excuse was left for any American to say that McCarthyism was based on a wild fantasy. The facts about communist activities in the US were corroborated by the documents in declassified KGB archives. Those who continue to insist that communists were “innocent victims of a witch hunt” are either ignorant fools or have a malicious agenda and know exactly what they are doing. Which one are you, Rotwang?
