Double standards
This is Samizadata's Quote of the Day:
Kill six millions Jews in Germany, your name becomes a synonym with evil. Kill between 44 and 72 million Chinese, you get a cafe named after you. It's a funny old world, eh?Twas ever thus.
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Austin Barry
January 17th, 2008 1:02pmA few years back I had a meal in the "Khmer Rouge Experience Cafe" in Phom Penh. The lovely waitresses were dressed in Killing Field-style fatigues. Odd.
Edmund Burke
January 17th, 2008 9:24pmDue to a campaign by a few good people, Cafe Mao dropped the picture of Mao, replaced by a picture of a young Chinese boy. The best way to get them to change the name would have been to set up a cafe Hitler. I'm afraid, in Dublin as elsewhere in the West, a Cafe Stalin would have had them flocking through the doors.
Ross
January 18th, 2008 12:36amThere are actually a few Nazi themed cafes most notably in South Korea. http://edition.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/asiapcf/east/03/19/korea.nazi/
Mr Grumpy
January 18th, 2008 1:57pmGood point by Samizdata, but it needs to be pointed out that the comparison is misleading, suggesting as it does (inadvertently, I'm sure) that there wasn't too much wrong with Hitler apart from his habit of killing Jews. The Soviet Union alone lost over 20m lives in WW2, deaths for which Hitler bore no less moral responsibility than Mao did for deaths by starvation in the Great Leap Forward.