re: #182 Charles

Did anyone ever deny that Stalin and Mao were communists?

With respect, I think you’re missing the point.

Just because the JBS was/is whackaloon batshit crazee about comnists in all their insidious forms does not mean, back in the day, that their assessment of Stalinist/Maoist evil was wrong. Stalin and Mao were thoroughly evil men responsible for scores of millions of deaths.

Just because the term “watermelons” may have been coined by the JBS - I have no evidence either way, except for bald assertions here - does not mean “watermelons” do not exist and are not pernicious.

Someone who would use ecological concerns for social(ist) control purposes is someone to be distrusted and watched. And the convergence between far-left politics and the ecology movement is well documented.