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What would be nice is for people to start checking members of their own tribe or party. Saying Trump is Hitler and things of that nature is ridiculous. Republic

by bruceb 10y ago

What would be nice is for people to start checking members of their own tribe or party. Saying Trump is Hitler and things of that nature is ridiculous. Republicans are not the KKK. Tell your friends to tone it down a notch. On the other side when some can only describe liberals as libtards or some such juvenile insult there is a problem. Or when a tiny group on campus does something ridiculous and then extremists say all liberals are like them. Stop puting up FB posts on something political that don't cite sources. If it doesn't have a easily linkable source then it is almost always a half truth. Most situations are shades of gray.

gnipgnip 10y ago
The whole Hitler thing is strangely universal. I've previously read about Abe being compared to Hitler. A stranger incident was a picture of Modi next to a Swastika - the (Indian) authors found no irony in using a Hindu symbol, and embedding in it the European epistemology of "Aryan pure blood", in order to appeal to people who they were appealing to. Admittedly the elites of the latter are indistinguishable from those in the US, and this is imaginably true of Japan too. Is this true outside the Anglosphere and their peripheries too ? Edit: I think Assange has the situation right. Trump is symbolic of "White trash" - much as Modi is symbolic of the un-anglicized mass in India. Their opposition, dub themselves with various epithets like "progressive" "liberal" "secular" etc.. until the cows come home. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sbT3_9dJY4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sbT3_9dJY4 That said, it should be noted that this doesn't necessarily mean the contenders are going to do anything drastically different from the status-quo. Certainly has been true in India.
- anilgulecha 10y ago
  > A stranger incident was a picture of Modi next to a Swastika - the (Indian) authors found no irony in using a Hindu symbol, and embedding in it the European epistemology of "Aryan pure blood", in order to appeal to people who they were appealing to. You're missing some context -- that most Indian-locals have. Swatika is a common religious symbol used on everything from new stationary to inaugurations/events. The "Nazi"-ness of it is likely unknown to most. So it would only be strange to those for whom the symbol is only taught/learnt in the Hitler-WW2 context.

by bruceb 10y ago

gnipgnip 10y ago

The whole Hitler thing is strangely universal. I've previously read about Abe being compared to Hitler. A stranger incident was a picture of Modi next to a Swastika - the (Indian) authors found no irony in using a Hindu symbol, and embedding in it the European epistemology of "Aryan pure blood", in order to appeal to people who they were appealing to. Admittedly the elites of the latter are indistinguishable from those in the US, and this is imaginably true of Japan too. Is this true outside the Anglosphere and their peripheries too ? Edit: I think Assange has the situation right. Trump is symbolic of "White trash" - much as Modi is symbolic of the un-anglicized mass in India. Their opposition, dub themselves with various epithets like "progressive" "liberal" "secular" etc.. until the cows come home. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sbT3_9dJY4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sbT3_9dJY4 That said, it should be noted that this doesn't necessarily mean the contenders are going to do anything drastically different from the status-quo. Certainly has been true in India.

anilgulecha 10y ago
> A stranger incident was a picture of Modi next to a Swastika - the (Indian) authors found no irony in using a Hindu symbol, and embedding in it the European epistemology of "Aryan pure blood", in order to appeal to people who they were appealing to. You're missing some context -- that most Indian-locals have. Swatika is a common religious symbol used on everything from new stationary to inaugurations/events. The "Nazi"-ness of it is likely unknown to most. So it would only be strange to those for whom the symbol is only taught/learnt in the Hitler-WW2 context.