Why Is Communism Revered While Nazism Is Shunned?

While deposing officials from the Division of Motor Vehicles for my lawsuit against the state of Virginia, my attorney asked the official charged with determining "offensive" language if someone could obtain a personalized license plate with the word "NAZI." "Oh, no!" he quickly and harshly responded, "That is too offensive." My attorney then asked if "COMMIE" would be issued if requested, to which he replied yes. We debated afterwards if these officials realized that communist leaders were far more brutal than Hitler.

The atrocities of communism - whose leaders were responsible for the deaths of about seven times that of Hitler - are as repulsive as the atrocities of Nazism, but don't tell that to Cameron Diaz who, while visiting the Machu Picchu ruins in Peru, sported a Maoist canvas shoulder bag with the communist red star and the phrase "Serve the people," written in Chinese. This was deemed a little offensive. Go figure!

[I]n Peru the slogan evokes memories of the Maoist Shining Path insurgency that fought the government in the 1980s and early 1990s in a bloody conflict that left nearly 70,000 people dead.

Hitler's Nazi regime is as repulsive as it gets, but Communism is all-too-often given a free pass, which reminds me of the following Dilbert comic.