I feel Whoopi Goldberg.
Not her views, not remotely, but I get lashing out in confusion in frustration over a view and really not having anybody to engage over it, and hash out the problems.
The fact is, views require scrutiny, and without that peer review we end up just festering from our own blind spots.
Maybe if someone actually tried to ask her why she feels as she did, and gently point out how she's missing context on, say for example, the fact Jews very much could be picked out on the street in 1940's Germany? Or how Nazi idealogy makes specific mention to them, or any number of things she may not realize?
I mean, is she evil or ignorant? If the latter, will silencing her make her any less ignorant?
Would public conversations not educate everyone who listens?
Originally posted by Old Man Whirly!
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Dead at 31 from asthma, damn
http://www.killermovies.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=672749
Why was this thread closed.
Mirriam-Webster definition of fascism:
1
often capitalized : a political philosophy, movement, or regime that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition
2
: a tendency toward or actual exercise of strong autocratic or dictatorial control
The above commonly understood definition does not limit fascism to a specific period of history. So If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck — let’s agree to call it a duck.
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There has been an enormous amount of economic and social turmoil in the past two decades —beginning with 9/11 and consequent ‘endless wars’, the 2008 economic and housing collapse, income stagnation and generational income inequality, racial injustice, and an existential climate crisis. I’d say young (and old) people are deeply disillusioned and worried.
We may have all been taught democracy is important, but for those whom our capitalist democracy has failed — the luster may have tarnished.
Thus, tragically, what we are witnessing now shows both the disillusioned, as well as the those who have benefited by the status quo and who want to stay in their position of privilege, can be swayed to believe that liberal democracy and the rule of law is obsolete, and yes, that fascism has allure.
That’s where we are today.
Anyone remember this gem?
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/07/29/politics/donald-trump-9-11-first-responders/index.html
Donald Trump has always had a bit of Walter Mitty in him. But on Monday morning, in a speech to first responders and others impacted by the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, he took his fantastical memory of himself to new and not-at-all-appropriate heights.
“I was down there also, but I’m not considering myself a first responder,” Trump said. “But I was down there. I spent a lot of time down there with you.”
Uh, what?
Let’s be clear about what Trump is doing here: He is associating himself – very closely – with the men and women who were the first to respond to planes being crashed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. People who continue to suffer health issues due to their jobs.