The left always accuses the right of what they are either already doing or wish to do. This is a fundamental law of the universe, which shall henceforth be known as Clark's Law of Leftist Projection. Whenever a bunch of leftist protesters or rioters are screeching about "genocide," it's always when they are in favor of genocide themselves; just look at the pro-Hamas useful idiots in the United States. I suspect many, if not most of them, have a perfectly good idea what "from the river to the sea" means, and they're shouting it anyway. And when the left yaps about "authoritarianism," it's out of a sense of entitlement and envy that they aren't in a position to be authoritarian themselves - yet.
It's also always the left that's calling for the overthrow of governments. Including ours.
If you're wondering how bad things can get, we need to take a look back in history, to the years 1976 to 1979, and at two nations: Cambodia and Sweden.
In 1976, shortly after the end of the United States' involvement in Vietnam, neighboring Cambodia was under the iron boot of communist dictator Pol Pot. Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge had renamed the country Democratic Kampuchea - it was not democratic, of course. That's when the real horror began, as Pol Pot's Khmer began a wholesale slaughter of Cambodians. In the killing fields, as much as a quarter of Cambodia's population was exterminated; estimates range from 1.5 to 2 million people. The genocide ended when Vietnam invaded in 1978 and deposed the Khmer Rouge, pushing them back into the forests. Pol Pot died of a heart attack in 1998 - there is some speculation that he ingested a fatal dose of tranquilizers.
Shamefully, just as some deny the WW2 Holocaust, some deny the killing fields of Cambodia ever happened, or try to downplay the horror, among the American left and elsewhere.
Despite the eye-witness accounts by journalists prior to their expulsion during the first few days of Khmer Rouge rule, and the later testimony of refugees; many academics in the United States, United Kingdom, France, Australia, and other countries portrayed the Khmer Rouge favorably or at least were skeptical about the stories of Khmer Rouge atrocities. None of them, however, were allowed to visit Cambodia until the final few days of Khmer Rouge rule (except Gunnar Bergstrom, president of the Sweden–Kampuchea Friendship Association) and few actually talked to the refugees whose stories they believed to be exaggerated or false. According to Joel Brinkley, "Khmer Rouge apologists easily outnumbered those who believed a tragedy was under way."
Note that last organization: The Sweden-Kampuchea Friendship Association. It's not possible to have a friendship with someone like Pol Pot any more than with any venomous reptile, but the Swedish Social Democrats - a left-wing, socialist party - sure gave it a try. Sweden, in fact, went all-in on support for Pol Pot and the Khmer, as vicious a bunch of genociders as you've ever seen. When the Khmer captured the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh, thousands of Swedes took to the streets in celebration. Sweden's prime minister, Olof Palme, a member of the Swedish Social Democrats, made a joint statement with Fidel Castro congratulating the Khmer and Pol Pot. Another Swedish politician, Birgitta Dahl, denied that the killing fields ever happened; during a radio appearance in 1979, she said:
We all know that much, well—probably most of what has been said and written about Cambodia is lies and speculation. It was absolutely necessary to evacuate Phnom Penh. It was a necessity to immediately get food production going and it would require enormous sacrifices of the population. But that is not our problem just now. The problem is that we don't actually have the knowledge—direct testimony—in order to dismiss all the lies that are spread by Cambodia's enemies.
This is, of course, utter horse squeeze. The Khmer were brutal murderers, Pol Pot was a ruthless communist dictator, and the best thing he ever did for the planet was to leave it.
Why is this important to consider now?
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Simply this: As we've noted, the American left and leftists elsewhere in the world will run cover for any actual genocide perpetrated against, for instance, Israel, or anywhere else. They do this knowing that they can simply deny it later, as has happened so many times in the past.
But it's an imperfect hope. We do remember the killing fields of Cambodia, those of us who look at history objectively. We do remember the Holocaust, we do remember the attempted genocide of Armenians by the Soviet Union, and more. Those of us who look at history objectively see these things for what they are: Unimaginable horrors perpetrated by socialists, by leftists, and we also see the attempts at denial, later, by other socialists, other leftists.
That's why it won't happen here.
The left always accuses the right of what the left either wants to do or is already doing. Nowhere is that more plainly illustrated than in the actual history of genocide and the history of genocide denial. It's the left - always the left - that turns to the killing fields as an answer.
