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September 07, 2002
Saturday
 
 
More griefometry
Brian Micklethwait (London)  Eastern Europe/Russia

The Blogger Bash is tonight, so I got myself in the party mood this morning by reading how David Farrer of Freedom and Whisky had responded to Adriana's griefometer posting.

He tried it on Soviet Communism, but deliberately took it all a bit seriously and tastefully, ignoring for example how very uncute lots of the victims of Soviet Communism were.

Now, this griefometer is just a silly game, isn't it? A bit sick perhaps? Well, consider this: 100 million killed over 80 years is about 3,422 per day. Or one "World Trade Centre". Every day for 80 years.

What's really sick is that the communists' ideological soulmates infest almost every academic institution in the western world. And I am still waiting for them to apologise.

Have a nice weekend.

Comments

They'll never apologize, see, because it's not the fault of their Perfect Theories, it's our fault. And who are we? All the people who stubbornly refused to by into the big lie and selfishly insisted on insignificant things like freedom of thought, assembly, the freedom to prosper, and so forth. You know, things people don't really need. [/sarcasm]


Posted by Andrea Harris at September 8, 2002 05:04 AM

See my latest blog:

http://alankhenderson.blogspot.com/2002_09_01_alankhenderson_archive.html#85426192

The main point in this post is this:

"One World Trade Center every day for eighty years. That sentence would carry a lot more punch if the people who gloss over the crimes of Communist regimes past and present didn't tend to blame the US for 9/11."


Posted by Alan K. Henderson at September 8, 2002 10:42 AM

Very interesting post


Posted by Jason at October 22, 2003 11:57 AM