Yipe, so closer to 40% of the population was killed, rather than the 20 to 25% bandied around by revisionists. I was young, but I do remember reading the very short articles in the paper about what was happening in that country (particularly the cities being emptied) and how little concern there was for it. The Left in this country, who indirectly orchestrated this genocide by leaving that part of the world to the knives of the Communists, I guess, didn’t have the time to look back and ask whether they did anything wrong by allowing Pol Pot to take over. More pressing matters ahead...
That’s why ANYONE who thinks that they’ll stop if we just give them what they demand, today, is NUTS.
They NEVER stop.
Think about it - 50 years ago, they only wanted to not be arrested for what they did in the bedroom. We gave them it. Now we have Drag Queens in libraries reading to little kids and a Drag Queen testifying to Congress last week. Get it, yet?
By the time the Carter years were through and Reagan was taking on the Sovie Union, I guess this fell through the cracks. I remember only vaguely becoming aware because my college roommate did an Economics paper about Kampuchea. I had never heard of it.
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A lot of us got it very clearly 20 years ago or more, but apparently we’re still in the awkward phase.
“That’s why ANYONE who thinks that they’ll stop if we just give them what they demand, today, is NUTS.
Think about it - 50 years ago, they only wanted to not be arrested for what they did in the bedroom. We gave them it. Now we have Drag Queens in libraries reading to little kids and a Drag Queen testifying to Congress last week. Get it, yet?
They NEVER stop”
And why should they? Relying on them to voluntarily stop is like relying on termites to voluntarily stop destroying a house when they’ve been allowed to eat away one room without repercussions?
Utopians, like termites, have to be constantly fumigated to keep them from destroying the whole “house” - and we are not doing that.
How does that saying go? “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
Edmund Burke