New York Times Celebrates Communism, Decides To Ignore All The Atrocities Committed In The Name Of Communism

It’s pretty clear where the Fishwrap of Record stands on the subject of collectivism.

The New York Times has this glowing op-ed detailing all the great and wonderful things the Communist Party did for the United States. Which, if you know anything about the history of communism – or even what communist regimes are doing to ordinary people today – you know is load of crap –

At a rally in New York City in 1962, the famously liberal journalist Murray Kempton said to an audience full of old Reds: “I have known many Communists in my life. I have not known them as criminals. I knew them once as activists — and we had our quarrels. But while this country has not been kind to you, it has been fortunate in having you. You have been arrested, you have been followed, you have had your phones bugged, you have had your children fired. Throughout this, I can think of numbers of you I have known who have remained gallant and pleasant and unbroken.” He added, “I salute you and I hope for times to be better.”
My mother was in the audience that night and said, when she came home: “America was fortunate to have had the Communists here. They, more than most, prodded the country into becoming the democracy it always said it was.”

The minute you start using “communism” and “democracy” in the same sentence is the minute I KNOW you’re smoking something. Has there ever been a less democratic system than communism? Communism thrives under oppressive dictatorships and power-mad political systems. The kind that have no problem with silencing dissent, sending citizens to forced-labor camps, and making their people worship their leaders like some perverse religion (on pain of death).

You’re freaking kidding, right? People like my parents came to America to ESCAPE Soviet-style communism, not suffer more of it. https://t.co/SeCEBHB4zi

— Gabriella Hoffman (@Gabby_Hoffman) May 1, 2017

Which is strange because communism destroyed humanity for hundreds of millions imprisoned behind the iron curtain #MayDay2017 https://t.co/Mb5iqrmm27

— Buck Sexton (@BuckSexton) May 1, 2017

Oh yes, the Communism that is so humane it only killed 100,000,000 people during the last century. https://t.co/4BOZIAX7hv

— #ExGOP Jorj X McKie (@jjs92285) May 1, 2017

Ideology that put 100 million humans in the ground in the 20th century is celebrated by the NYT. We’re in bizarro world. https://t.co/CDNq3Lrlj4

— Jason C. (@CounterMoonbat) May 1, 2017

Coincidentally (or possibly not – today is May Day, which is a big holiday for communists and socialists), Prager U has this video up talking about all the terrible things done to keep communism in power. Dictators imprisoning and murdering their own people, for the crime of daring to suggest that maybe communism isn’t such a hot commodity after all.

As a bonus, this clip also draws some parallels between communism and Nazism that are long overdue –

I’ve always wondered – if communism is so great, why is it that the people living under it aren’t allowed to even leave the country? Or to learn about other countries? What is the need for all the obnoxious propaganda? If living under Soviet communism was so great, why did the Soviets build the Berlin Wall and punish people who tried to leave East Berlin? Why is escaping North Korea seen as a death-defying and near-impossible feat today, yet people still try? Why do Cubans risk life and limb to sail to Miami in rickety rafts? If communism really is the most awesome economic system ever devised by humanity, shouldn’t it be the opposite? Shouldn’t people be pounding down the door to get into North Korea and Cuba? Why are people demanding to come to America, with all of our EEEEEEEVIL and oppressive capitalism?

It’s kind of a no-brainer. But now that I think of it, that might explain why the left is so in love with communism. It requires no brain.

(h/t Twitchy)