Posted: Sep 01, 2010 9:51 am
andyx1205 wrote:I don't ever say this, but that is a very anti-Semitic post. How dare you compare concentration camps with extermination camps.
Your post is hilarious on so many levels, I don't know where to start. To avoid embarrassing you any further, let's just forget you posted it, hey?
chairman bill wrote:Just one thing - SD isn't USAian, nor does he live in the USA. And I agree with him (yeah, I know, unbelievable) that concentration camps for homosexuals is beyond the Pale, and a late apology doesn't really make amends. Of course, he's completely missed the point, once again, and has taken an opportunity to go off on an anti-lefty rant. The nature of the beast it would seem.
No no no no no no no.
This isn't about an "anti-lefty" rant. In this instance I don't CARE whether Castro is left, right, up, down, diagonal or whatever. This is about his role in imprisoning gay people in concentration camps.
To my mind, you CANNOT justify such measures under ANY circumstances. There is a repeated failure from ideological dogmatists on the far left and right to understand that criticism of brutal dictatorships can actually be criticism for its own sake, rather than some kind of excuse to advance a political agenda.
I'm not Fact-Man. I don't have "my dictators" whose actions I defend at all costs and "your dictators" that I oppose with every fibre of my being. Every dictator who persecutes a minority will find an enemy in me, irrespective of whether they are socialist or fascist.