Loony Lefties

[scotspine1]

1 hour ago, onetruth said:

I know the interview you are talking about, it wasn't recent - it was about 10 years ago.  What she actually said was "some people will judge that on balance Chairman Mao did more good than harm", which is very different.  Also, the context was "why do some people think it is ok to wear a Mao t-shirt but not a Hitler t-shirt".

 

When you ignore context and edit out parts of the sentence you are quoting you are can make anyone say anything...

 

By recent I was commenting on the fact it wasn't in the 70s and she wasn't a miltant Marxist student activist at the time she said it where you could simply excuse it as youthful ignorance of the atrocities of communism.

 

Who are these, 'some people' anyway? people who's views should be respected? the hard left? neo Marxists/Maoists? Momentum? It's a moronic thing thing for her to say no matter how you look at it. It's not a reasonable thing to say under any circumstances given Mao's barbaric treatment of his people. These cretinous sporadic utterences from her are largely why people dislike her.

 

The mere fact she tried to defend the idea of wearing a Mao T-Shirt tells you everything you need to know about her.

 

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[onetruth]

6 minutes ago, scotspine1 said:

The mere fact she tried to defend the idea of wearing a Mao T-Shirt tells you everything you need to know about her.

Except that she wasn't doing that.

 

It was in the aftermath of the Prince Harry Nazi-uniform scandal.  She (stupidly) chose to hypothesise on live TV when the question was posed, she wasn't making a political point.  As I said earlier, she doesn't interview well; it was gaff, but she's no Maoist.

[scotspine1]

In the interests of objectivity I'll leave this here for people to draw their own conclusions. 

 

"He led his country from feudalism, he helped to defeat the Japanese, and he left his country on the verge of the great economic success they are having now." Diane Abbot

 

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at 0.40

 

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[kevinjohnsonmbe]

56 minutes ago, scotspine1 said:

In the interests of objectivity I'll leave this here for people to draw their own conclusions. 

 

"He led his country from feudalism, he helped to defeat the Japanese, and he left his country on the verge of the great economic success they are having now." Diane Abbot

 

Source 

 

at 0.40

 

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Couldn't help myself.....  (unbelievably, recklessly, dangerous and arrogant individual)