As for “Communist sadist pornography”, I’ll get right on to making some

P J O’Rourke at his smuggest said “I don’t mind being called a Nazi, no-one ever fantasised about being tied to a bed and ravished by a liberal”.

But the very fact that Nazism is synonymous with S&M, and that there has never been any Communist sadist pornography, (is that right Chris?) shows that even in the popular consciousness people can very easily see the difference between a good idea gone bad, and a monstrous idea going tickety boo.

So, ramble over. New Cultural Revolution restaurant? Silly, shitty, bad idea. Comparable to a restaurant named after Hitler? No way.

I don’t hold with the communist/fascist moral equivalence thing. There is a very good reason why Hitler is considered the purest essence of evil and Mao isn’t, and that’s because however many people have been killed under the name of “Communism” this is still a noble ideal gone disastrously wrong, while fascism/nazism is a hideous ideal going according to plan.

That’s fair enough. But the response to the portrayal of Hitler in movies such as Downfall and Max was that it’s wrong to humanise him. So what do you do?

I think there’s a culture gap; because Asians did not live through the war in Europe, they don’t associate Hitler so much with it (any more than French people think of Tojo in this light). They know he was an evil man, but he’s not such an icon of depravity. Which is why, in the Philippines, people name their kids after him.

Asians have their own bogeymen, whose impact may not be understood in the West. Mao killed more people than Hitler, but in Camden, there’s a restaurant called The New Cultural Revolution. Well?

By weird coincidence I read about this mad bitch on the same day I looked at this post…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savitri_Devi

Bet Savitri have loved a swift half at the wacky cafe!