80. Moho:

You could be correct. She could simply have written her speech poorly, not realizing that people would think that when she said Mao was one of her two favorite political philosophers that she meant that Mao was one of her two favorite political philosophers. Or perhaps she does hate Mao because he was a murderous thug, but finds his political philosophy attractive. That doesn’t speak well for her, though, since his political philosophy has been uniformly murderous wherever implemented. Why, Maoist terrorists are killing people in India right now! And in addition failing to vet her own comments to ensure that they don’t contain any accidental endorsements of mass murderers in our current media environment would seem a rather signal failing in a Communications Director.

Mocking people for a lack of critical thinking is a bad idea when your post so easily falls prey to a few seconds of critical thinking itself.

I know lots and lots of well meaning people with truly bad ideas. It’s rather likely that Dunne means well. But Maoism and other forms of Marxism are truly bad ideas. We should use the enforcement mechanisms of social norms, such as mockery, to drive them from typical discourse. This may take some time since they are firmly entrenched among the intelligensia. Marxism deserves to go the way of phrenology.

Yours,
Tom DeGisi