Reply #154: Baclava. Are you sure you didn't mean your name to be Balaclava? [View All]

You know, where the Light Brigade charged into the cannons? Because you just did.

Stalin was a Marxist. Just like Caligula was a Caesar. So was Marcus Aurelius. No one in their right mind says that Marcus Aurelius was an evil, demented, bloodthirsty tyrant because he believed in the same system that Caligula did. For that matter, I'm sure few here at DU would say that Franklin Roosevelt was just as bad as Ronald Reagan because both believed in representative democracy.

Or that America is bad just because Ronald Reagan was an American with a real, gen-u-ine birth certificate to prove it. Or because Jeffrey Dahmer was American, therefore all Americans are cannibals.

This is your logic: Stalin was a Marxist, or said he was, therefore all Marxists are evil. Might as well say: Jeffrey Dahmer was an American. Jeffrey Dahmer was a cannibal. Therefore all Americans are cannibals.

Don't insult my intelligence.