33% of millennials believe George Bush killed more people than Stalin.

Where to even begin with the opinionated twaddle that comprises this post.

Communism disn't kill people. I love the idea that "uneducated" right wingers would somehow have a better grasp of 20th century world history. An utter disregard for statistics.

Nothing to see here.

I'm glad this is satire.

Harvard: 'the total approaches 100 million killed.' https://www.fas.harvard.edu/~hpcws/asreview.htm

What, you believe you are quoting Harvard University, the institution now?

To say communism killed 100 million people is willfully drawing no distinction between an economic and social ideology and a particular instance in which a world superpower combined a form of communism with a despotic leader as part of a brutal regime.

Few people who proclaim themselves admirers of communism are referring to the Soviet Union's brand of communism, and if you aren't aware of that then you should be.

To say communism killed 100 million people is willfully drawing no distinction between an economic and social ideology and a particular instance in which a world superpower combined a form of communism with a despotic leader as part of a brutal regime.

Not that particular an instance, all examples of so-called communist regimes have been built upon those foundations and naturally so. God knows how much stick it would take to make society conform to this heavenly unadulterated form of communism some people dream of, as if humans were bees or ants.

List of all examples of communist societies that were not modelled significantly on the Soviet Union?

Oh, man...you were actually serious.

No, I believe I'm posting a link to the Harvard website and a source for the statistic, as well as a break down of the statistic. I thought that would have been patently obvious the moment you read the link.

Yes, we know, the left is never responsible for its outcomes, the right is always responsible for its outcomes. I salute thee, Comrade; are you done rationalising?

What's next? The National Socialist German Workers Party was actually an evil right-wing machination?

i have a book called "The Whisperers" by my bedside, to remind me of the horrors of Communism.

None, which was precisely my point in the first place. The Soviets invented it and there is no other brand.

As I've said, you are either willfully ignorant or just plain ignorant in not drawing any distinction between communist and the relatively few instances in which countries have adopted a butchered version of it.


The only person here seeking to make sweeping statements about the left and right here is you. Take your Daily Mail standard abuse of the general population's lack of education on how statistics should be analysed with integrity and peddle it elsewhere.

Communism disn't kill people.

and only 37% have an 'unfavourable' view of communism.

I think we should raise the voting age.

No. What we have with you is the typical, leftist logical fallacy: 'communism is defined by what it wasn't, rather than what it was.' << much like fascism, I might add, eg, the same fascism which advocated the minimum wage, 'gender equality', progressive taxation, lowering the voting age, abolishing the upper-chamber, the green movement, a hatred of laissez-faire capitalism (something Hitler and Stalin had in common) and a loathing of liberal individualism.

I've been in this argument so many times I simply don't have the energy or inclination to repeat it.

Ah, the ceremonial Daily Mail insult. I think that plays into another study I cited in a different thread, where a Professor drew this conclusion:

He also noted "blissful ignorance was accompanied by a basic humility about what they did not know.” But over time he said he increasingly saw “a sense of moral superiority in not knowing anything about our ‘racist and sexist’ history and our ‘biased’ institutions.” In other words, pre-conceived notions about what they believe they're likely to read stops them from reading.

Remember everyone: some sources just aren't worth reading; they are evil! Perhaps we could stage a book burning?