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What you're saying seems to be built on assumption that all "politics" is the same. It absolutely isn't. Evil (fascism, concentration camps, ehtnic cleansing, .
by glogla 7y ago
What you're saying seems to be built on assumption that all "politics" is the same. It absolutely isn't. Evil (fascism, concentration camps, ehtnic cleansing, ...) and fighting against evil, are both political stances, but they are very different.
And "let's not interfere with evil because it would be politics (or affect our bottom line)" is definitely political stance - it's picking the evil side.
- koonsolo 7y agoIs Trump evil? It's not clear to me, so maybe you have the answer. At some point, the line of evilness becomes so thin that you will have to "pick a side" if you have done it before. Easier to just not go down that route. But still, is Trump evil?
- glogla 7y ago> Is Trump evil? It's not clear to me Trump is corrupt, abuser, a fascist, arguably a traitor of American people. He's racist, sexist and he gives his support to horrible movements (like KKK and alt-right) and normalizes their views. He's responsible for ICE and putting children in concentration camps. There must be huge gap between perspectives, because I don't understand how it something like this can be unclear. If not this guy, who would you consider evil if anyone?
- koonsolo 7y agoOk I was wrong, you can actually divide the world into evil or not. It's not always as clear to me and others, so can you share if following things are evil or not: Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Apple, Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Barack Obama.
- lordlimecat 7y ago>He's responsible for ICE In what world? ICE was created in 2003.
- glogla 7y agoI mean, yes, but 1) ICE is Executive branch and he's the chief of Executive branch (I guess the proper word would be accountable). 2) I'm pretty sure a lot of the way ICE is acting now (you know, the children in cages who are refused medical care and so on) is affected by the guy in charge being openly racist who considers non-white people subhuman, wants to build a wall and considers "good people on both sides" between nazis and non-nazis. President is not just chief of the army and the executive branch, he's an ideological leader who represents the people and shows what kind of behavior is proper, and what is acceptable and so on. At least he should be, anyway.
- LordDragonfang 7y agoI get that HN doesn't do like the anti-Trump circlejerk, but you literally removed context the of that quote in order to completely change its meaning. And the comment is right there, too, so people can see you did it. >He's responsible for ICE and putting children in concentration camps Support him or not, Trump is literally responsible for the current situation with ICE and the border; the actions that led to it were practically a cornerstone of his campaign promises. When ICE was founded is irrelevant.
- radiator 7y agoI would say this is a rather childish view of the world, to separate things into two categories, evil and good.
- glogla 7y agoIf you consider concentration camps, gulags, or whatever as anything other than evil, I don't think I can convince you. Such way of thinking seems really alien to me.
- unionpivo 7y agoSure most of the times its shades of grey. But sometimes like in this instance it really is black or white.