What Part of ‘Fuck You, Commie Scum’ Is So Hard for @BurkelyH to Understand?

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Burkely Hermann, St. Mary’s College of Maryland, Class of 2016

Burkely Hermann describes himself:

#Socialist, citizen of the world and college student who fights for global justice and works to challenge the powers that be.

Well, who is Burkely Hermann and why should anyone care? He popped up on Twitter this morning to deny an obvious truth:

Michelle Malkin is never going to bother responding to an insignificant troll like Burkely Hermann, a freshman at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, but it’s Saturday afternoon and what better to do today than to make an example of this ignorant Occupy-loving scumbag?

For some unknown reason which he did not bother to explain, Hermann went on a sort of Twitter rampage of pro-Howard Zinn messages, re-Tweeting three-year-old messages including these from Michael Moore and convicted cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal:

As to Howard Zinn’s role in the Communist Party (CPUSA), I wrote about this extensively when Zinn’s FBI file was released in 2010:

Read either or both of those articles, and then read the 400-page FBI file itself, and make up your own mind. No honest and intelligent person could disagree with my conclusion:

The FBI files demonstrate beyond reasonable doubt that Zinn — author of A People’s History of the United States, widely used as a textbook or supplement in many of our nation’s high schools and universities — was a card-carrying Communist at a time when the Soviet Union was America’s most dreaded enemy.

Burkely Hermann is neither honest nor intelligent, however, and yet supposes himself both intellectually and morally superior to anyone who calls attention to the obvious facts about Zinn.

This is how it always is with leftist punks: They imagine that their ideology confers on them a special insight, providing them with access to esoteric truths which no one outside the Cult of the Enlightened can understand, so that if you disagree with them, the very fact of your disagreement is proof (to them) that you are “ignorant,” etc.

Facts and logic that contradict their arguments are dismissed as somehow tainted because they don’t come from reliable (i.e., leftist) sources, whereas any specimen of counter-factual lunacy is acceptable to them, so long as it supports their anti-social worldview. There is therefore no point in trying to reason with such fools.

Case in point: After I responded to Hermann’s deliberate trolling, he Tweeted to one of his allies a link to an article in The Progressive about Zinn’s FBI file, as though the article somehow disproved Zinn’s CPUSA affiliation, which it certainly does not.

What that article does is to portray the FBI (and its director, J. Edgar Hoover) as unreliable, paranoid extremists who were persecuting Zinn because he “was active in protesting and speaking out at that time,” as Zinn’s daughter is quoted as saying — but this does nothing at all to contradict the evidence against Zinn. It may be true that (a) Hoover was paranoid, (b) FBI agents were sloppy, and (c) Zinn was an idealist, without in any way discrediting the testimony from multiple sources that (d) Zinn was an active member of the CPUSA.

This was a problem with the pro-Communist Left going back to the time of John Reed: No matter what evidence you offered about the evil folly of Bolshevism, they would always find some way to deflect or deny or ignore it. And this problem persists into the 21st century — here with the punk Burkely Hermann, who wasn’t even born when the Soviet Union collapsed under the massive weight of Marxist lies — because American educators and intellectuals will not teach the truth about the Cold War.

John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr have documented the ways in which historians have obscured the reality of how the CPUSA abetted Soviet espionage during the Cold War, and I can damned well guarantee that Burkely Hermann knows nothing about that book.

There are vast libraries of books that leftists refuse to read, because their worldviews are so fragile that they cannot stand contact with reality. If you ever encounter a leftist who has read Thomas Sowell’s The Vision of the Anointed or the Peter Collier/David Horowitz classic, Destructive Generation, please let me know, because I’ve never met one such person in the past 15 years.

Notice how conservatives instantly repudiated David Cole (a.k.a., “David Stein”) once his past as a Holocaust denier was exposed, yet the Left dissembles and accepts any flimsy excuse for Howard Zinn’s embrace of the maniacal mass-murderer Josef Stalin. Notice also Burkely Hermann’s “fuck the FBI” response:

Scratch an Occupy/Anonymous activist and a sociopathic cop-hater bleeds — which is one reason I pay attention to trolls like this.

Back in 2009, one such troll decided to get up in my face and I kept an eye on him for the next three years until one day, he melted down in public, threatened an FBI agent and got himself arrested. Can’t say I never tried to warn him, but these fools never listen.

 

 

UPDATE: Re-reading my July 2010 post about Zinn’s FBI file, I see nothing I’d change except a few typos. What I think may confuse some younger readers (and perhaps Hermann is confused by this) is how the FBI or anyone else could determine what sufficed as evidence of CPUSA membership at a time when the CPUSA was effectively outlawed and its members were intensely secretive.

In Zinn’s case, there was at least one CPUSA informant who reported having attended lectures on Marxist-Leninist doctrine at the Party’s Brooklyn headquarters. This unnamed informant, interestingly enough, named George Kirschner as a Brooklyn CPUSA official at that time — evidently the same George Kirschner who later co-authored one of Zinn’s projects. But beyond that kind of direct evidence (including the presence of Zinn’s name on a 1947 CPUSA mailing list), there were multiple incidences of Zinn’s involvement in Communist “front groups.”

You really have to study the history of that era to understand the significance of the fact (to cite just one example) that Zinn served as a delegate from a Communist-infiltrated group (American Veterans Committee) to the national convention of a group blacklisted by the Attorney General in 1947 (Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee). Let anyone ask some of the surviving anti-Communists of the 1950s and ’60s — especially M. Stanton Evans — how conclusive that evidence was, in terms of Zinn’s standing with the CPUSA. And when you fast-forward two decades from there to the late 1960s to find Zinn teaching a seminar entitled “Marxism and Contemporary Problems,” sponsored by an organization founded by Herb Aptheker . . .

Well, for crying out loud, if you think further proof than that is required, you probably wouldn’t believe Zinn was a Commie even if his membership file turned up in the KGB archives in Moscow.

 

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  7. Exactly: The writer at The Progressive would not denounce Zinn if Zinn had declared himself a member of CPUSA, but Zinn denied it, and therefore this somehow discredits the FBI for having collected evidence about Zinn’s CPUSA membership. It’s like how the Commies would plead the Fifth Amendment when asked about their activities and (by the magic of leftist pretzel logic), this non-denial became proof that the Commies were innocent victims of a witch-hunt.

    If you study the Rosenberg case, to cite a famous example, it is hard to avoid the conclusion that Julius Rosenberg was acting under Party discipline and was so determined to do what he believed in the Party’s interests that not only was he willing to do die, rather than admit his guilt, but he was willing to let his wife Ethel die, too. And for what? To protect the Stalinist empire!

  8. He’s the kid who always got the wedgie walking down the hall or depants in gym class in front of everybody and his hair looks like he still gets swirlies on a daily basis…in other words, a smart-ass punk who lets his alligator mouth overload his tweetie bird ass.

  9. “Works to challenge the powers that be”. Somehow I guess that wouldn’t include Obama

  10. “This is how it always is with leftist punks: They imagine that their ideology confers on them a special insight, providing them with access to esoteric truths which no one outside the Cult of the Enlightened can
    understand, so that if you disagree with them, the very fact of your disagreement is proof (to them) that you are “ignorant,” etc.”

    They call it “false consciousness”. FTR

  11. I’m going to assume, for the sake of argument, that Burkely is ‘ethnically’ Jewish. Why is it so hard these guys to grasp that it apparently inevitably becomes necessary that they be liquidated in order that socialist utopias be realized?

  12. Yes — “false consciousness” being anything (e.g., religion or patriotism) that causes members of the proletariat to oppose Marxism.

  13. I have no idea of Hermann’s ethnicity, and certainly would not presume to know merely on the basis of his appearance or his surname, which could easily signify German ancestry.

  19. ” And this problem persists into the 21st century — here with the punk Burkely Hermann, who wasn’t even born when the Soviet Union collapsed under the massive weight of Marxist lies — because American educators and intellectuals will not teach the truth about the Cold War.”

    This is what is so dangerous about our education system as well. Not only are these kids being taught revisionist history, they are asked to go out and spread these untruths far and wide.

  21. It’s important to verbally beat the tar out of idiots like this now and then. It lets everyone with multiple neurons to rub together know that this person is an idiot, it damps down the enthusiasm of all their fellow idiots, and it’s good mental exercise.

  22. Your point about CAN’T YOU READ got my attention. I troll Democratic Underground at night to tweet out their idiocy. In my observation, THE thing that outfits like MMfA, ThinkProgress and other outlets count on is that very, very few ever read past the headline. And they often link back to articles they themselves published as some sort of “proof”. I have some close friends that were once committed liberals and when they see how gullible they were, they are embarrassed. Burkely will never be one of those people.

  23. Howard Zinn as model for another American politician:

    Howard Zinn admitted to the FBI to being a member of a number of Communist front organizations. In 2008, Barack H. Obama, then the junior Senator from Illinois, was discovered to have been a member of the Communist-front New Party – part of his FBI background investigation for a security clearance.

    Only because neither man admitted to be a communist, only their friends and allies (most of whom were declared communists, or internationalist socialists) declared they were not communists. Neither Zinn nor Obama denied they were communists.

    What Hermann does not understand is mathematics, specifically statistics. Anything is possible, but: if a person regularly writes and speaks on a political-economic theory as the best option, and associates him or herself with others who share that same opinion of politics and economics, decade after decade (for almost 9 of them), then the probablity of that person being a whatever-ist is near to 100%.

    For example, Zinn’s contemporary William F. Buckley spent decades extolling capitalism and conservatism. Over the decades one was assured Buckley was not a communist.
    I don’t blame Hermann. Logic is hard. So is life. I’d look at the parent who raised him.

  25. Sooner or later the little snotnose will have to leave college, and reality will wipe that smirk off his face. But I guarantee you he will never, ever figure out why his life doesn’t work. The streets of Studio City are full of him.

  26. Eric Boehlert punked himself like that a few days ago. He linked to an article about NYC’s violent crime being down and sneered “Could it be, oh, I don’t know, because NY’s new gun laws are WORKING?”

    Turned out it was an article about NYPD’s new stop-and-frisk policy towards young minority men. Doubt Eric ever posted a retraction or correction, so I guess he’s all about keeping the brown man down.

  29. Better watch out,,McCain. Last time you insulted a college student (the guy from Harvard) he and his pals came and whined on your blog and said how stupid we all were. LOL.

  31. You should try to find out if this kid is related to Zinn or has a family connection of some sort. His interest in defending Zinn sounds personal rather than academic to me.

  32. Haven’t seen much damping down of idiot enthusiasm lately, but the verbal beat-downs are fun anyway. Go for it.

  34. Honestly, he doesn’t look old enough to have ethnicity, or puberty, or a philosophy, or even a realistic world view (cause it’s hard to get one in your parents basement, shaving with tweezers and a magnifying glass). What he does have is a substantial pile of ignorance, inexperience and indoctrination under his belt, along with a heaping buttload of hubris, which of course makes him an expert in his little world. Try not to upset his delicate balance with big words, historical facts, evidence or reality for God’s sake. His hero Zinn knew enough to lie about being a communist just like Obama cause he knew what the rest of the world knows about that being a bad thing. This kid may proudly proclaim his membership cause he ain’t all that bright.

  36. I do that too sometimes…..but then I have to take a really long, hot shower to wash the crap off. I have friends who are old school Democrats, one of which was military intelligence, who pegged Obama as a communist from the get. It’s going to take a lot of work and several generations to undo the indoctrination these kids have had. I agree this young man is not a likely candidate for deprogramming.

  39. I’ve seen dozens of lefty “proof” links that had NOTHING at all to do with subject at hand. They used to assume conservatives wouldn’t bother to click their links, or to read them through, and that causal readers would just take the offer of “proof” as evidence on its face without checking.

  40. Very sad for Burkely Hermann to have this meltdown right now, just as he is a leading contender in the “Gilligan Tsarnaev Look-alike Contest.” He might have won that expenses-paid week in Dagestan!

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