Comments on: The Pinochet Effect https://www.isegoria.net/2016/04/the-pinochet-effect/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Fri, 26 Jun 2026 21:34:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Cassander https://www.isegoria.net/2016/04/the-pinochet-effect/comment-page-1/#comment-2464385 Cassander Sat, 02 Apr 2016 22:06:19 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=39958#comment-2464385 Pinochet was never vilified for his actual crimes, but for his lack of them. Had he actually been the mass murdering ogre the left claimed they never would have troubled him because his vileness would have been self evident. But because he was not the mass killer (his total victims amount to around 3000) they claimed, because he did not loot or misgovern his country, because he had the temerity to be right wing and unambiguously successful, his vileness needed to be proclaimed as loudly and frequently as possible, lest the flock loose faith.

]]> By: Charles W. Abbott https://www.isegoria.net/2016/04/the-pinochet-effect/comment-page-1/#comment-2464341 Charles W. Abbott Sat, 02 Apr 2016 14:24:47 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=39958#comment-2464341 A provocative piece.

This reminds me of the Alexander Boot column “They still sputter venom at Franco.” Since the Spanish Republic was a cause of the Left, Franco is an ogre. Perhaps he was. But if you view Franco as the man who saved Spain from becoming a Soviet-guided communist satellite, you have a different view.

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