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Thursday, June 23, 2005
Me look at purty pictures..not read stuff inside
Tim Graham- Stupidest Man on Earth:
MAO Z. HUFFINGTON [Tim Graham]
Forgive me for noticing so late in the week, but why does Time look like a pathetic communist poster this week? (Mao is not the subject inside.) Is this any way to show the world your fervor for the people and their human rights? Presenting like a sun god a man who slaughtered millions?
Here is the offending cover that Tim can't seem to wrap his cashew-sized brain around.
...and here is Ed Driscoll, the Second Stupidest Man on Earth, agreeing:
Earlier this month, we linked to an Australian article about Chang and Halliday which had this classic radical chic rebuttal from Philip Short, a British author and journalist who published his own book on Mao in 1999:
"Mao was ruthless and tyrannical enough in real life that there's no need to reduce him to a cardboard cut-out of Satan. Do we really gain in understanding by denying his complexity, his perversity, his genius and reducing him to a one-dimensional caricature?
"Mao was a tyrant, but [also] much more than that. He was the reverse of a one-dimensional man. He was a great poet, a visionary and, I would argue, a military strategist of genius. He had great skills and enormous failings. Let's not oversimplify and pretend he was just a monster.
Fine. But the reverse should be equally true: let's not oversimplify as Time does on their cover this week and imply that he was just a beneficent leader and kindly father-figure, either.
You see the Mao jacket has Luis Vuitton logos so it's a parody of----
Oh fuck it. Why bother.
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