Why do people unironically defend Pol Pot?

[Cabelaz]

He killed so many people and was easily one of the most evil people to ever live. Yet I see people defend him. Why?

 

[Chilson]

Why do people defend Stalin, Mao, and Fidel Castro? Its all about ideologists defending their ideology even if its fundamentally flawed and will always lead to these horrid monsters taking control.

 

[No Exit]

Because they have to defend everyone on their political team regardless of how shitty they are/were, or apparently the whole belief is invalid.

 

[Thomas Highway]

Same reason there are still Stalinists, Maoists and Nazis.

Simple minds looking for simple solutions to complex problems.

 

[Wright]

Deez niggas are dumb as hell

 

[Thiletonomics]

Some of those Pol Pot Stans must really get off of how his regime brutally murdered babies, just because they weren't Communist enough. I hope that those said Stans don't try to replicate those acts in real-life though.

 

[Underperforming]

Because they agree with him

 

[Seven Costanza]

Pol Pot seems frighteningly relevant nowadays. All this "great reset" shit makes me think of "year zero."

 

[The Spice boi]

Cause he looks like a friendly Chinese grandpa that belongs on a bottle of hot sauce

 

[Jason Wynn]

Same reason they defend people like Stalin, Che Guevara and Castro. Leftists are evil

 

[Beautiful Border]

Huh? I almost never see people defend Pol Pot. Even people who defend Stalin and Mao don't like him.

What I do tend to see quite a lot, on the other hand, are people making excuses as to why the west is actually responsible for helping Pol Pot in various ways (Nixon bombing Cambodia and the CIA deposing Sihanouk, Reagan and Thatcher continuing to recognise the Khmer Rouge as Cambodia's representative at the UN, etc.) as well as heaping praise on Vietnam for deposing him. The fact that Pol Pot was ultimately still a communist is always conveniently ignored, of course.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

I want to know how many of them wear glasses.

 

[millais]

State enforced anarcho primitivism. No cities, no glasses, no books. I think the Uncle Ted crowd can get on board with that.

 

[Retired Junta Member]

Either malice or ignorance.

 

[:gold:]

Nobody? I guess I’ll have to, then.

 

[Unyielding Stupidity]

Because it's a way for them to be edgy, it's the left-wing equivalent of right-wingers making Hitler/Nazi jokes. I seriously doubt most actual leftists support Pol Pot, considering the sheer batshit insanity of his rule.

 

[Llama king]

Because they can

 

[Kill a Troon for Pikamee]

How can you NOT defend Pol Pot? Take a look at the blue checks and professional journos on Twitter, that's the type of people Pol Pot tried to warn us about. The history has proven he was right and that the total extermination of the intellectual class is necessary.

Pol Pot was never a marxist, he was mostly inspired by esoteric traditionalist nationalism and the cambodian golden age. He was deposed by commies. Only commies are anti-Pol Pot, who was a true and honest trad nationalist and did literally nothing wrong

 

[Lou’s Biggest Fan]

Because he had a funny name and was based af

 

[Lemmingwise]

When I was a teacher and I was reading some online stuff about communists winning the cold war ideologically, I thought it was absurd. I put down my phone browsing and talked to my colleague instead. I asked about her past. She told me about how she had a great time in cambodia in her teens. I asked a couple of more questions, and apparently she was there around the time of the killing fields and working to spread the ideology to peasants.

Here she was educating the sons and daughters of the nation's elite. Suffice to say, I started to take online discussions a bit more seriously.

How can you NOT defend Pol Pot? Take a look at the blue checks and professional journos on Twitter, that's the type of people Pol Pot tried to warn us about. The history has proven he was right and that the total extermination of the intellectual class is necessary.

Pol Pot was never a marxist, he was mostly inspired by esoteric traditionalist nationalism and the cambodian golden age. He was deposed by commies. Only commies are anti-Pol Pot, who was a true and honest trad nationalist and did literally nothing wrong

Yes this france educated communist, marxist leninist wasn't a marxist. Sure. Just because commies hate each other doesn't mean they aren't commies.

But right, nothing as traditionalist as abolishing money, private property and religion. Certainly not communist at all.