On 10/09/2016 08:23 PM, xorcist@sigaint.org wrote:
Why not just address the point about Stalin, and forced work camps for homosexuals, starting in 1933?
Honestly? Because I'm not interested. You DID correct my blanket statement about "since 1917" but the rest of your spew bores the living fuck out of me.
Thank you for retracting an inaccuracy.
It leaves me to wonder, however, why you would choose to respond to the otherwise 'boring' points, rather than own the inaccuracy upfront to begin with and just move on.
Because I had something to say first... Here's what I have to say now. I've watched your convos with Juan... The amount of conflicitng nonsense you post in your over-worded boilerplate makes my eyes glaze over. You do not and cannot get to the point because all you are doing is 'hitting every pin' trying to glean reactions. No point necessary. How much does Langley pay you by the word to do that? Rr
Also note Stalin's pronouncements regarding gays and others was just as much a social aberration in Russia as the WWII internment of Japanese Americans was in the US.
This is an excellent, and fair point! I have no illusions about U.S. mis-deeds. I am not anti-Russian, nor some type of neo-McCarthyist. Quite the contrary. The current situation being what it is, I give the moral high-ground to Russia.
Nevertheless whitewashing Russian (or American/British) history IS a misdeed. All governments fail in this way, and it is precisely the reason to distrust ALL government.
I'm concerned with my OWN country's REACTIONARY freaks.
Fine. But again, please don't whitewash Russian history. That was my only objection - your statement gave a rosy view of Russian history which is not real. I understand that not ALL of Russian history was so -- monstrous -- as under Stalin. I also understand that American history is equally, if not more-so, stained -- but that was not the issue at hand.