Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site fortune.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!fortune!grw From: grw@fortune.UUCP (Glenn Wichman) Newsgroups: net.politics,net.misc Subject: Re: Hypocrisy Message-ID: <3541@fortune.UUCP> Date: Wed, 6-Jun-84 14:39:11 EDT Article-I.D.: fortune.3541 Posted: Wed Jun 6 14:39:11 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 7-Jun-84 19:06:58 EDT References: <1008@ihuxm.UUCP>, <671@ut-ngp.UUCP> Organization: Fortune Systems, Redwood City, CA Lines: 20 bip. Well, this is old news, and it is silly to blame "this country" (as it exists now) for things that happened > 100 years ago, on the other hand, "this country" takes a lot of credit for things it did then, too. I'm not sure what this comes out to in raw numbers, but consider that Hitler (not a communist) destroyed about 40% (?) of the Jewish population in his attempted genocide. Mao killed only a small percentage of his population. The gov't. of the USofA was responsible for the destruction of 99% of the native population of this land. The president most responsible for this action is still an honored hero in American culture, and enjoys center stage on our $20 bill. At least in modern Russia Stalin has become a non-entity (amazing how they do that), and in modern Germany Hitler is almost unanimously rejected. -Glenn