Hypocrisy. Hard Swallow When You Get Caught In Your Own Hypocrisy - All You Can Do Is Admit It!

Several weeks ago I had a conversation with a women where I work. She mentioned that she was or was hoping to go to Cuba. I am the only one in this office who lived through the Cuban Communist enslavement and the betrayal of the Cuban people. Adding to my reaction was the fact that I have a close friend who served in the Bay of Pigs invasion, shook with fear when the Russians put missiles in Cuba to kill me within 5 minutes and endured the flood of Cuban murders, thieves and psychotic thugs released in Florida and Georgia by that idiot, Jimmy Carter. Disregarding the crimes against the Cuban people then and now will get an immediate comment from an opinionated and supposedly engaged person as I seek to be. Challenging and confronting hypocrisy, in others, is the air I breathe.
This young woman turned to me and said "Didn't you just get back from China." "Didn't you love it." It was shattering. My roof caved in and I felt sick. China, of course is one, if not, the most inhumane, murderous and criminally governed nations on the Planet (I am not sure North Korea is an actual nation).
While in China, it became obvious to me that the Chinese people have the long view. They have been murdered, enslaved and exploited by the regimes and conquerors who have ruled that land for the last 5,000 years. The current, old thugs in Beijing have only been there since 1947 ... mere "seconds" in the life of China. Communist or Mongol: it makes little difference to the Chinese people ... Despots are all the same.

The people are no more communist than I am. But neither are the Cuban people. I couldn't even find a Red Communist flag to buy as a souvenir in China - they don't sell them in the markets. These facts are no excuse but did expose how my view could be manipulated by my bias. I really like the Chinese people; their beauty, kindness and politeness masks the horrors that some of their countrymen have to endure. There is no one to apologize to; so I apologize to our common “Search For The Truth” and hope to live up to the standard of intellectual integrity that I ask of others. Hypocrisy is hypocrisy.