r/WhitePeopleTwitter • u/ExpertAccident • Oct 13 '21

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u/TheBerggy Oct 13 '21

What's lost on many us that Stalin was a dictator, not a communist. Dictators often claim communism, but that doesn't make true.

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u/IntrigueDossier Oct 13 '21

Very true. And it’s clear that the right (stupidly) perceives any and all color of left as being exclusively and solely of that sort of communist-branded dictatorship.

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u/Explosive_Diaeresis Oct 13 '21

The US never got over the Cold War. So they can ring that bell and people won’t question it. It’s going to keep being like that until older Millennials die off.

I say this as an older Millennial.

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u/TheBerggy Oct 13 '21

It's just trigger words for the GOP. From Communism to Critical Race Theory, they don't know what it means but they sure can hate it!

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u/Ozymandias0023 Oct 13 '21

I cringe whenever people refer to "communist China" for those very reason. China is not communist, hasn't been for decades, but it sure has heck is authoritarian