: : A debate about whether Sovietism was a good thing (which I agree it wasn't), with it's corresponding anti-Communist witch-hunt is not a trivial debate no matter how you see it. : A debate about whether Sovietism was a good thing is trivial because nobody is supporting Sovietism. It's trivial for the same reason, for instance, that nobody is debating whether murder is a good or a bad thing. Perhaps the witch-hunt isn't trivial -- the debate is.
That's a bad analogy there. Paralleling a debate about the good and bad of murder with the good and bad of Sovietism isn't even close to what I've been posting about.Whether Sovietism is good or bad is a moot point. Agreed? What I posted about was the fact that mainstream propaganda in the western world bought the Soviet version of communism as the real thing and that the imagery brought out was and will continue to be used against dissidents. The debate about that isn't trivial and if you think so then don't debate about it. Any debate on the possibilities of implementing socailism will drag that subject out.
If I see what I believe to be a trivial debate I debate about something that interests me. Since you feel it is trivial I feel that there may be a flawed understanding on your part and it doesn't seem to be that trivial for the webmasters to not include it. Can you see my point?
The next thing I want to get onto is the link I provided for you. That website is a great example of media demonization of an environmental group. You're a Green aren't you ? Then what I'm getting at is that when a group or idea is misrepresented in media coverage then it's a very good thing to recognize that there are historical precedents for this. Greenpeace being demonized in Canadian media and then by a union that claims to be democratic should be of interest to
you. It should get you thinking that the same thing could easily happen to your organization. Understanding how this works is essential. I've had a lifetime of fighting a bad image that I was born into. Somehow that means more to me than you. If I seem emotional then you may have to understand that I've seen what people consider to be trivial blow up in their faces.
