Posted on 09/13/2018 1:44:51 PM PDT by The Pack Knight
Students at a leading London university have been condemned as blind to reality after defending the system of Soviet Gulag labour camps where thousands perished as “compassionate” places of rehabilitation.
Trans rights campaigners at Goldsmiths University described the Gulags as benign places where inmates received education, training and enjoyed the opportunity to take part in clubs, sports and theatre groups.
In fact most historians agree they were a brutal network of labour camps used by Stalin’s Soviet dictatorship to incarcerate internal opponents and so-called "enemies of the state", resulting in the death of more than an estimated 1.05 million people.
During a bizarre exchange on Twitter the LGBTQ group at Goldsmiths Student Union described life in the Gulags as “rehabilitatory” and “educational”.
Paradoxically the thread was written as an apparent justification for an earlier post by the same group which threatened to send a political opponent “to the gulag”.
The threat was made against Claire Graham, a special education needs teacher, who wrote objecting to LGBTQ Goldsmith’s threat to target feminist academics who they claimed were prejudiced against transgender individuals.
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Orwell wrote 1984 and Animal Farm to warn about such British Stalinists.
How long would the LGBTQ—RSTUVWXYZs have lasted in the former Soviet Union?
I’d really like to take a peek at the revisionist history books those kids are reading. Got to be some gems in there.
According to this line of thought, Solzhenistyn was an overwrought malcontent.
Remember, trans people are severely mentally ill, so in a way, they can’t be blamed for such comments.
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1970)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Day_in_the_Life_of_Ivan_Denisovich
Ivan Denisovich Shukhov has been sentenced to a camp in the Soviet gulag system. He was accused of becoming a spy after being captured briefly by the Germans as a prisoner of war during World War II. He is innocent, but is sentenced to ten years in a forced labor camp.
The day begins with Shukhov waking up sick. For waking late, he is forced to clean the guardhouse, but this is a comparatively minor punishment. When Shukhov is finally able to leave the guardhouse, he goes to the dispensary to report his illness. It is relatively late in the morning by this time, however, so the orderly is unable to exempt any more workers and Shukhov must work.
The rest of the novel deals mainly with Shukhov’s squad (the 104th, which has 24 members), their allegiance to the squad leader, and the work that the prisoners (zeks) do in hopes of getting extra food for their performance. For example, they are seen working at a brutal construction site where the cold freezes the mortar used for bricklaying if not applied quickly enough. Solzhenitsyn also details the methods used by the prisoners to survive; the whole camp lives by the rule of survival of the fittest.
Tiurin, the foreman of gang 104, is strict but kind, and the squad’s fondness of Tiurin becomes more evident as the book progresses. Though a morose man, Tiurin is liked because he understands the prisoners, he talks to them, and he helps them. Shukhov is one of the hardest workers in the squad and is generally well-respected. Rations are meagre at the camp, but they are one of the few things that Shukhov lives for. He conserves the food that he receives and is always watchful for any item that he can hide and trade for food at a later date.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqG1uwhTX2o
Maybe we should set up the equivalent for the LGBTQ so they can experience the “compassion and chance for education”
/sarc
“Trans Right”? Is this the place where they ‘reach around’ and meet the Far left?
If trannies want to live in gulags who am I to object?
Sounds like they’re volunteering to live in such a facility.
Nice to know that trans people can find common ground with Putin and his fellow Stalin-apologists
Or in the nazi regime? Oh, never mind, we have been told about the camps just waiting.
Paternal Joe Stalin
About as long as it takes to load and aim an AK-47! (Slightly longer if a “trial” was included)
“Remember, trans people are severely mentally ill, so in a way, they can’t be blamed for such comments.”
Other than the fact that the inmates are running the asylum now.
The amazing thing is that some leftists have been trying to use 1984 against us, as if it has something to do with Trump, when Orwell explicitly said that Big Brother’s oppressive party was Ingsoc, Newspeak for “English Socialism.” Orwell understood the left and his own people very well.
Sadly, it’s increasingly looking like the UK lost the Cold War, especially when you see how the Brits are cracking down on free speech and thought.
Don’t know whether to LOL or Eww! (possibly both)
There is truly evil in the world and this is it.
The bottom line, they decided for someone else where they should be and what they should be doing. In several million cases they decided you shouldn’t be alive.
It’s anti-human, and anyone defending it identifies them self has a monster. Never give up the Second Amendment
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