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Sunday, June 14, 2009
Useless Genius said...
To the readers who is not familiar with the word "useful idiots"...please read:
In the United States, the term is sometimes used as a pejorative to imply that a person is ignorant and thus easily swayed (made 'useful') toward causes that are against their own interest, or what they would consider to be the greater good, were they better-educated.
The term is also sometimes used by anarchists and other radicals to describe groups and individuals whose ideology is alleged to be excessively deferential to a government or authoritarian political movement.
Since the September 11, 2001 attacks, the term "useful idiot" has also been used by some commentators to describe individuals they believe to be too 'soft' against Islamism and terrorism. For example, Anthony Browne wrote in the United Kingdom newspaper, The Times:[3]
“ Elements within the British establishment were notoriously sympathetic to Hitler. Today the Islamists enjoy similar support. In the 1930s it was Edward VIII, aristocrats and the Daily Mail; this time it is left-wing activists, The Guardian and sections of the BBC. They may not want a global theocracy, but they are like the West’s apologists for the Soviet Union — useful idiots.
In the United States, the term is sometimes used as a pejorative to imply that a person is ignorant and thus easily swayed (made 'useful') toward causes that are against their own interest, or what they would consider to be the greater good, were they better-educated.
The term is also sometimes used by anarchists and other radicals to describe groups and individuals whose ideology is alleged to be excessively deferential to a government or authoritarian political movement.
Since the September 11, 2001 attacks, the term "useful idiot" has also been used by some commentators to describe individuals they believe to be too 'soft' against Islamism and terrorism. For example, Anthony Browne wrote in the United Kingdom newspaper, The Times:[3]
“ Elements within the British establishment were notoriously sympathetic to Hitler. Today the Islamists enjoy similar support. In the 1930s it was Edward VIII, aristocrats and the Daily Mail; this time it is left-wing activists, The Guardian and sections of the BBC. They may not want a global theocracy, but they are like the West’s apologists for the Soviet Union — useful idiots.
June 13, 2009 8:51 PM