RW garbage article equates Sanders commitment to social justice with Khmer Rouge
Well, on the bright side - they wouldn't be going after him with this type of propaganda unless they feared his increasing popularity.
On the dark side…who the heck goes to those sites and brings that propaganda here to DU? This is another example of what they do - and, yes, I'm making a point about the evils of spreading RW propaganda for those unconcerned about it being spread on Dem sites. This hit piece on Sanders will become a RW talking point by the end of the week.
http://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/the-social-justice-shibboleth-of-the-khmer-rouge-and-bernie-sanders/
'Social Justice': What Khmer Rouge And Bernie Sanders Share
Social Justice: At a hearing to overturn his crimes of humanity conviction, Khmer Rouge henchman Khieu Samphan defended his crimes as done in the name of “social justice.” Funny. We hear that from Bernie Sanders, too.
Much has been made of the signature economic failures of the Democratic candidate’s professed socialism. The ongoing economic collapse in Venezuela is Exhibit A. But going hand in hand with socialism is “social justice” a concept that sounds noble for its presumption to level “the distribution of advantages and disadvantages in society,” in the name of equality. “My run for office was a manifestation of commitment to social justice,” Sanders said as he began his presidential run.
And “social justice” made another appearance, this time, in the form of what they did in Cambodia after the last helicopter lifted off from the U.S. embassy roof in Saigon in 1975, an act explicitly sought by Sanders’ anti-war left.
Three million Cambodians were slaughtered as a result by the Khmer Rouge communists, who were seeking to build an “equal” society of social justice from the ground up. They accomplished it through what they called “self-reliance,” another fine-sounding buzzword meaning autarky, the isolation of the country from all outside influence and scrutiny, an explicitly anti-free trade, anti-globalization romanticist philosophy that drove millions of city dwellers to the isolated countryside. There, they were systematically enslaved, shot, starved, tortured, brainwashed and indoctrinated, turning the country into a vast boneyard. With a quarter of the country dead, the Khmer Rouge achieved their sought-after social justice of equality all right: the equality of the grave.
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