Like many other liberals, Joan Walsh has seized the opportunity of Mandela's death to smear today's right with the racism and white supremacy of their ancestral heroes with a mix of charges fair and foul.
Great play in the media for these attacks, these past days.
But only the even more absurd and annoying Ann Coulter reminds us the Democrats opposed the Civil War and supported racist terrorism and American Apartheid for a century after, including such liberal heroes as Woodrow Wilson.
All because everyone believes that whites who have a problem with non-whites today are mostly Republicans, while the Democracy harbors in its bosom a veritable rainbow coalition of people - people holding megaphones, like Joan - who hate American whites or white people, globally, including many white liberals and feminists who make no bones about it and scream their venom at every opportunity.
Including this one.
A question for Ms Walsh.
At the time he was imprisoned, Nelson Mandela was in fact a terrorist and no one had more reason to believe in the democratic aims of the ANC than in those of Uncle Ho, though things turned out otherwise not least because though Ho won his war Mandela sat in prison for thirty years.
The same Ho, that is, whose project was so recently and absurdly, er, whitewashed as democratic by a certain non-white Democrat in the White House, come to think of it.
[And the left never tires of accusing the right of a propaganda of whoppers.]
Joan implies but does not quite say she supported Mandela, back in the day.
And did she support Uncle Ho?
She may have done both.
As for Mandela, she celebrates his commitment to violent revolution as a radical leftist, though she will not call him the outright communist he was.
And, while carefully praising his refusal to renounce violence as a condition of his release, she excuses his post-prison acceptance of peaceful transition and democracy as best she can - clearly, in her view, it is this that requires an apology - "as the best strategy to achieve freedom and justice."
Her exact words.
He was a revolutionary who believed in a radical redistribution of wealth, and a global warrior against poverty, to the end. . . . But it’s equally important to remember the commitment to equality that let him endure prison, and adopt reconciliation as the best strategy to achieve freedom and justice.
Does it not seem that, like Dr. King and others of the left, when she says "freedom" and "justice" she means "equality" and "social justice" - and so again "equality"?
It seems inescapable she thinks "freedom" is something that might be won by a red revolutionary dictatorship.
Does she think Ho was a "freedom fighter," along with Mandela?
And what of Obama's recent whitewash of Ho Chi Minh that fit so well his friendship with Bill Ayers and his long relationship with Rev. Wright?
Scratch a liberal, find a fellow-traveler of the radical left, or worse, sometimes.
Isn't it almost comic, looking back, how Obama and his supporters were going to put behind us the political conflicts and allegiances of the boomer generation?
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