... I remember the day one of my Hmong friends messaged me crying (literally) that Obama had denied General Pao burial at Arlington. But I only recently found out he actually praised the leaders of the North Vietnamese... Despicable man.
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torturedbythecia:
@Jozsef As for the Homng - here's where one of my friends spent her life until she was 5 in Laos: http://www.corbisimages.com/images/Corbis-42-20341912.jpg?size=67&uid=f127c2dd-6805-4e56-ac60-5e64b1887829 --- eventually her family moved to the United States and in a single generation she's taking Calculus and Organic Chemistry with me and went to UC Santa Barbara. The Hmong didn't even have a written language 60 years ago. She was thrilled when she met me that I had known something about who the Hmong were and how they ended up in the United States otherwise frustrated that nobody really understood and just assumed they're all Chinese or Korean or something when their immigration story is much much different and fraught with massacres, refugee camps, and suffering. I took it as somewhat of an insult when President Obama refused General Pao (the Hmong tribal leader who sided with the CIA and unified the Hmong tribes against the VC) Arlington, but it wasn't until I discovered his praising of Ho Chi Minh that I was enraged by it.
torturedbythecia:
@jozsef In short, the American Left's perpetual sanitizing of the genocides and mass killings by communists in the 20th century combined with their perpetual hatred of Nazis (totally justified and I'm in full agreement) is more than a little cause for concern in my book. When people grow up thinking Hitler is the most evil thing to walk this planet and knowing nothing of Stalin and Mao's massacres - you're living under revisionist historians.