TERRIFIC YOUNG WOMAN – AT 11:18 A.M. ET:  And yes, you even find them in the Ivy League.  This Harvard student is taking on the casual pro-Communism of other Harvard gems.  From Campus Reform: 

A Harvard University student whose father escaped Romanian Communism recently called out her liberal classmates for casually endorsing the murderous ideology.

In an essay for The Harvard Crimson, sophomore Laura Nicolae warns that widespread student sentiment on campus paints communism as an “idealistic or revolutionary” ideology, glossing over the fact that millions of people have died as a result of it.

"Roughly 100 million people died at the hands of the ideology my parents escaped...We owe it to them to recognize that this ideology is not a fad, and their deaths are not a joke."   

“They cannot tell their story. We owe it to them to recognize that this ideology is not a fad, and their deaths are not a joke.”

Nicolae argues that for many students, “casually endorsing communism is a cool, edgy way to gripe about the world,” citing the rise of students wearing Ché Guevara shirts, the formation of student clubs dedicated to Marxism, and noting that her campus is “saturated with Marxist memes and jokes about communist revolutions.”

In an interview with Campus Reform, Nicolae explained that she was inspired to write the piece because she hopes to “remind people of the historical truth that every time communism has been tried, it has resulted in misery, starvation, and violence.”

Students don’t learn this in school, she explained, adding that “communist theory and rhetoric have been separated from communism’s historical consequences.”

“College culture generally looks favorably upon the idea that we should be mindful of the historical context and consequences of our political speech,” she said. “It’s a mystery to me why political speech about communism doesn’t get that same treatment. That’s a double standard.”

COMMENT:  She's terrific.  There are many reasons why Communism has not been held in the same contempt as Nazism.  First, and most important, we fought a world war against Nazism, with hundreds of thousands of American casualties.  The Communist Russians were, during that war, on our side, at least on the surface.

Second, Communism appealed to many simplistic intellectuals in the press and the universities, and they filtered the news about what real Communists actually did.

Third, the excesses of Senator Joseph McCarthy and his allies turned many people away from anti Communism, making it more difficult to expose the truth about the reds.  It was said in the early 1950s that Joe McCarthy was the best friend Joe Stalin ever had.

I hope we'll see a backlash on college campuses against the reds.  Young women like Laura can make it happen.

December 11, 2017