Wasn't Time's Man of the Year decided January 15?

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SportsJournalists.com circa 1989

PDB: I think it should go to the Tiananmen Square protesters for daring to stand up to an oppressive regime.

BTE: Would you feel the same if China was a democracy and the protesters were backing Communism?

 

"Communism" is not the opposite of democracy; "totalitarianism" is. It just so happens that the most famous communist states were totalitarian regimes. But there's no rule that it has to be that way.

Is someone democratically elects a communist form of government . . . that's fine by me.

I was just struck by the "rah-rah" approach given to the Iranian protesters and their cause for a couple of reasons:

1. Mousavi really did lose. Only the margin of his loss appeared suspicious. The protesters were demanding that a losing candidate be put in power. I have a hard time with that.

2. The difference in Mousavi's ideology and Ahmadinejad's is so tiny that it's arguably irrelevant. So why all the love for the former?