Let's start this week's What the Heck with the commies, shall we? It's a bizarre reality I bring up to my high school students every year. If you ask any random off the street who they think the worst person in human history has been, the answer will come back nearly instantaneous and unanimous: Hitler.
It doesn't take a genius to figure out why. Everyone knows the madman is responsible for a global conflict that resulted in millions upon millions of deaths, not to mention the heinously intentional and systematic extermination of countless Jews.
But what I have never been able to understand is how so few people give communist thugs like Mao or Stalin even the slightest bit of consideration for that title of "world's worst," particularly given that both men racked up death tolls that put Hitler's to shame. But it's actually worse than that. While Nazism still carries today the stigma that its monstrous evil deserves, communism itself seems to just skate by. So much so that self-proclaimed "academics" like Tim Anderson post things like this publicly and without shame:
This is really ignorant stuff. Stalin was anything but motivated to liberate the death camps, perhaps because he was too busy running his own. Besides that, it was the communist non-aggression pact with Hitler that opened the door to the German onslaught against Europe in the first place, something that hastened the genocide.
But beyond that, the communists were butchers in their own right and it's beyond morally offensive to lionize them like this. What's wrong with these people?
That question goes for Christian trolls and progressive activists like "liberation theology" proponent and self-styled funny man Mason Mennenga as well. No, he wasn't plugging commies, but he did redefine tone deaf with this:
These activists are truly committed to completely obliterating the meaning of the word "trauma," aren't they? It is used so liberally these days, you can never know if the traumatized person encountered sexual abuse at the hands of a trusted adult or if they were given a grande instead of venti cup at Starbucks.
Or in the case of Mennenga, his "trauma" was being told by a church that he should follow the Bible's instruction and avoid sexual immorality. The same thing that is taught and preached in every Bible-believing church in the world. Only in 2023 can that be viewed as traumatic. I'm just glad others picked up on it as well, and called him out, leading to this fabulous exchange:
That's not trauma, Mason. That's being told you can't or shouldn't do something. Are we so far gone that it's impossible for so many to distinguish between the two?
Finally this week, I'm not a big Marjorie Taylor Greene fan, but if you missed her grilling of ex-Twitter executive Yoel Roth it's worth catching:
"You permanently banned my Twitter account but you allowed child porn all over Twitter." Dang.
But anyway, that scene prompted several online keyboard warriors to start channeling their inner First Amendment attorney, and giddily predicting a coming defamation suit by Roth against Greene for assassinating his character.
The number of people who were saying similar things or liking and retweeting that nonsense was truly breathtaking. Congressmen have legal immunity for things they say on Capitol Hill thanks to the "speech and debate clause" crafted by the Founders in Article I, section 6.
Does no one take civics or even a basic government class anymore? It's not going to be long before the idiocy on the outside of Congress is equal to that on the inside. God help us all.
