Sunday, May 22, 2005
Leftist Icon was...Dare we Say it...a Racist and Homophobe?
The Left, sick as it is, holds up the image of Chilean President and Marxist Psycho Salvador Allende Gossens as the paragon of virtue, after he blew his brains out with a pea shooter during the 1973 coup which brought General Augusto Pinochet to power. The Left calls Allende a "victim of imperialism" and "a victim of the radical right" and some such other nonsense.
So imagine the incredible quiet from The Left when it is exposed that Allende was a racist, a homophobe (yep, he hated buttfuckers, too), and an advocate for killing the poor:
Was Salvador Allende a Racist?
How that must hurt. Next we will hear that Che Guevara diddled little children and Kim Jong-Il builds nuclear weapons for fun.
The Left, sick as it is, holds up the image of Chilean President and Marxist Psycho Salvador Allende Gossens as the paragon of virtue, after he blew his brains out with a pea shooter during the 1973 coup which brought General Augusto Pinochet to power. The Left calls Allende a "victim of imperialism" and "a victim of the radical right" and some such other nonsense.
So imagine the incredible quiet from The Left when it is exposed that Allende was a racist, a homophobe (yep, he hated buttfuckers, too), and an advocate for killing the poor:
Was Salvador Allende a Racist?
A new book on Chilean President Salvador Allende is causing a stir by suggesting that the now-legendary icon of the left -- who killed himself during a 1973 putsch -- was both racist and anti-Semitic. His family and loyalists insist the book's author is committing a "gigantic fraud of history."
The medical department's library at the university in Santiago de Chile is a spooky place. Located behind the reading room, a tiny elevator leads through several deserted floors. Tucked between shelves -- packed with yellowed anatomy booklets and an x-ray machine that looks like it could be from the Stone Age -- is a glass cabinet holding bottles of liquid. But of what sort? Impossible to say.
Next to this poison cabinet, there's a door, secured with a padlock. Stored there is a yellowed and tattered book collection, which contains the 1933 dissertation of the medical doctor and future president of Chile Salvador Allende Gossens. The work is "public and open to everyone."
But apparently the scientist Victor Farias, 65, was the first person ever to closely read the dissertation. In his newly published book, Farias claims that Allende, known as an icon of the left in South America and Europe, was actually quite different than the legend. The proof, Farias writes, is all right here, in Allende's own dissertation. The scientist says the dissertation exposes Allende as a racist and anti-Semite, and as a proponent of eugenics and forced sterilizations.
How that must hurt. Next we will hear that Che Guevara diddled little children and Kim Jong-Il builds nuclear weapons for fun.
