By Kevin Baldeosingh Freeport
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Former trade unionist turned attorney Clyde Weatherhead, in a letter titled “Unquestioned bias breeds division” (Sunday Express, 14/09/25) singles out “Hitler and the Nazis”, “South African apartheid champions”, “Zionists in Israel”, and “US President Donald Trump and his MAGA fascist administration” as examples of “the ideology and culture of hate which turns us into acceptance of fascist hatred and dehumanisation of the ‘enemy’ and ourselves.”
He then piously declares that “Fascist ideology begins when we stop questioning and begin accepting blindly the biases and prejudices of others. We must refuse to become other than thinking human beings.”
Yet notably omitted from Weatherhead’s list is any Communist regime, even though that ideology was historically responsible for more deaths than any other. In his book Atrocities, Historian Matthew White puts the death toll from Communism at 70 million (he omits the 30 million killed in communist-related wars). Of his list of 100 deadliest multicides, two communist leaders—Mao Zedong and Joseph Stalin—are ranked in second and sixth positions, killing 40 million and 20 million people respectively. Communist dictators were responsible for six multicides, ranking second after religion (but religious mass deaths date from the Crusades to the Sudanese war, while communist deaths start from 1917).
Weatherhead should therefore heed his own advice.
