The criticism here isn’t that nothing like this has ever happened in a communist country. It’s the chauvinistic idea that nothing like this would ever happen in wholesome America, and when it does happen, it’s not who we are, it’s a few bad apples acting like some evil other.
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The criticism here isn’t that nothing like this has ever happened in a communist country. It’s the chauvinistic idea that nothing like this would ever happen in wholesome America, and when it does happen, it’s not who we are, it’s a few bad apples acting like some evil other.