Steyn: What's Repugnant?

Following up on comments from another neo-Marxist in the Obama administration, Mark Steyn scores big with a nice constrast of what is and what is not morally repugnant according to today's Left:

If you say, "Chairman Mao? Wasn't he the wacko who offed 70 million Chinks?," you'll be hounded from public life for saying the word "Chinks." But, if you commend the murderer of those 70 million as a role model in almost any schoolroom in the country from kindergarten to the Ivy League, it's so entirely routine that only a crazy like Glenn Beck would be boorish enough to point it out.

Watermelons

It's a shame that there are racial connotations associated with the word "watermelon" because the word is a perfect symbol of exactly what a man like Van Jones represents. He's an avowed communist (red on the inside) who decided that he would adopt the veneer of environmentalism (green on the outside) to become far more influential than he would have otherwise. Money and power is no longer as available to people who claim the mantle of Marxism but it is to those claim the mantle of environmentalism. What other word would work just as well?