Let's talk about Pol Pot and Freepers...

[solinvictus]

I've been reading up on the late Soloth Sar's regime and comparing notes to opinions expressed over in Freeperland. The common thread between the Khmer Rouge and Freepers is this: they both hate knowledge and educated people. Notice how Freepers refer to us as the "educated elite" or "smarty-pants liberals" or "ivory tower academics"? See the connection here? Question: do you believe the Freepers would act in the same manner as the Khmer Rouge if they were in power? I honestly do.

[derby378]

1. Who's Soloth Sar?

Pardon my ignorance - that name's new to me. Was he/she one of the Angka that controlled the Khmer Rouge?

[solinvictus]

2. Soloth Sar=Pol Pot...

It was his given name.

[lateo]

3. This is a common thread of fascists...

And it is listed as one of the 14 characteristics of fascism. So, to answer your question...yes...there is no doubt they will do that.

[derby378]

6. But the Khmer Rouge were communists, not fascists

Fascists tend to support an aristocracy of sorts, be it the senators and assorted Republican holdovers in the Roman Empire or the industrialists, Imperial holdovers, and ambitious inner-circle wonks of the Third Reich. Within "Democratic Kampuchea," which is what the KR turned Cambodia into, there were only three levels in the pyramid - Angka Loeu, composed of Pol Pot and his own inner circle at the top, the KR military in the middle, and the oppressed and tortured population of Cambodia at the bottom.

[Mz Pip]

4. I have yet to be given

a reason why being educated and smart should be considered a negative thing.

Maybe it's like penis envy or small man complex. Hate what you don't have and never will have.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[Old and In the Way]

5. Why are there no BA degrees in Conservative Arts?

Maybe because it's all about knowing more, not less?

[kiki]

7. To paraphrase one writer:

"Like it's MY fault that YOU'RE stupid."

[TahitiNut]

11. But that's EXACTLY what's thought.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=3458444&mesg_id=3458582

[derby378]

8. Those who are intelligent ask too many uncomfortable questions

The KR wanted to remake Cambodia into an agrarian labor camp where the Cambodian citizen worked 18 hours a day tilling the soil, planting crops, and digging ditches while being fed meager rations. Those who asked questions about why things should continue down this path risked exposing the opulence and hypocricy of Pol Pot and the ruling elite, and thus found themselves in danger of being tortured and killed in the fields - if they were lucky. Those who were not so fortunate were send to the Tuol Sleng interrogation center in Phnom Penh, a former school turned into a massive torture chamber from which only a handful of people made it out alive.

[TahitiNut]

10. Vandalism ethic. Only one man could've sculpted the Pieta ...

... but any sociopath can destroy it. The most common emotional dysfunction is "you make me ..." - whether it be happy, sad, angry, proud, ashamed, or anything else. From the time we're children, we're trained to surrender control over the only thing we really ever have any chance of 'controlling': our own inner attitude. Having surrendered this, any attempt to compensate by controlling anything else is doomed to failure. Even the codependency of interlocking You-Make-Me's is doomed to fail. Dysfunctional is dysfunctional - and it can't be voted away by achieving a majority.

That sets the stage. Teachers like me (who grade on the curve) offer the playground for choices. A student can either choose to see the demonstrated possibility, or they can wallow in the irresponsibility of blame. After all "you made me look bad" (by scoring better).

It's my opinion that You-Make-Me™ is the most popular brand of fertilizer for sociopathology at the grass roots.

[WearyOne]

9. of course they would. they hate what they can't understand

my conservative room mate joined the free****** board and was astounded by the vicousness dealt out to him because he doesn't agree with every single thing they said. He was truly frightened and fortunately 'expelled' from the board. Now he's re-thinking all his attitudes. But they hate 'liberals' ( whatever that is)and they hate intellectuals and I think given half a chance they would round them up and all their supporters ( us) and machine gun us.