How disturbing to read your published “cool fact” (p. A2, June 8) about China’s Communist flag. To use the adjective “cool” along with the flag of an Orwellian communist government is just … twisted.
Does Communism naturally bring about a “cool” word association within the Southern California News Group? Newsflash: There is nothing “cool” about communism whatsoever. It is a totalitarian ideology; a blight upon humanity. It belongs on the ash heap with Nazism and fascism.
1990s era French sociologists credibly calculated that communism caused 100 million deaths, including some 65 million in Communist China alone. Yet SCNG publishes this communist chic “cool fact” just after the grim Tiananmen Square Massacre anniversary. Even now the CCP represses Muslim Uyghurs, Tibetan Buddhists, and freedom in Hong Kong.
Millions of veterans who faced down communism, along with countless millions more who suffered under it, see nothing cool about communism. You should publish a retraction with an apology … now.
Rick Reiss, Temecula
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