MIKE King points out that in a CNN debate between Van Jones, a former Obama staffer, and Jeffrey Lord, a former Reagan staffer, about Trump and David Duke’s affiliation with the Ku Klux Klan, Lord never attacks Jones’s for his admitted past as a Communist. Whatever crimes were committed by the Ku Klux Klan, which was started after the Civil War at least in part to protect Southern women from black rapists, they pale in comparison to the crimes of Communism, which led to the deaths of tens of millions of people in the 20th century.

But if Lord had responded this way would viewers have gotten it? Probably not.

Most Americans have been steeped in scary imagery of the Ku Klux Klan. They know little or nothing about the crimes of Communists.

The media, Hollywood and publishers don’t educate them about them. Wonder why? “Some call it Marxism – I call it Judaism,” Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, said in the American Bulletin of May 15, 1935. “It would be absurd to deny the intensity of the Jewish participation in the Russian revolutionary movement,” wrote Leon Dennen, in The Menorah Journal (New York), July-September 1932, p. 106.

The Bolshevik, Kustodiev, 1920

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Neil writes:

I texted my friend who was born, raised and lives in Alabama. He’s never met a Klansman. (He’s in his 40s.)

I recall that in the hyped Ferguson, Missouri investigation of the shooting of Mike “the Gentle Giant” Brown by the police officer, blacks claimed they were afraid to testify truthfully that Brown started the incident because of the KKK. How many Klansmen are there in Missouri?

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