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This new wave of McCarthyism is really exciting from a historical perspective. And, you know, perversely, my long-standing belief that so many "historical" vic
by at_a_remove 6y ago
This new wave of McCarthyism is really exciting from a historical perspective. And, you know, perversely, my long-standing belief that so many "historical" victims are eager to strap on the jackboots themselves gets yet another data point.
- etangent 6y agothat's because victim/oppressor is a false dichotomy. the true dichotomy is friend/enemy
- igravious 6y agoum, in-group/out-group ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-group_and_out-group https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-group_and_out-group
- etangent 6y agoThe political philosophers got there before social psychologists https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/schmitt/ https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/schmitt/ “the specific political distinction … is that between friend and enemy.”
- esja 6y agoToday's Red Guards will never achieve this level of self-awareness: "Hans, are we the baddies?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWvpvlT9pJU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWvpvlT9pJU