Joe Bagadonuts
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Yeah, forgot about that until after I wrote my post. Definitely not okay.
America is great and everything is NOT Pres. Trump's fault thread
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Joe Bagadonuts
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I was up way too early when I wrote that post. My brain was not yet functioning. My bad.
I do not think I completely understood your post, but I will try to respond appropriately. Please let me know if I missed the point.
I am not sure what Democrats did or did not notice in 1994, and what liberals (who could have been Republican or Democrat) did or did not notice in 1950, but I think one of the ways our culture is changing is in our understanding that words and symbols themselves can be used as threats in some circumstances, and even more so as statements that certain people are unwelcome.
I have those days as well.
Heathme
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Trying to stay positive in this thread is quite difficult.
The Trump/Hitler comparison is ridiculous. I am surprised that liberals and anti-Trump people (that's for you people that are offended that I say you are liberal) still use this stupid argument.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/...-comparisons-are-only-helping-president-trump
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/393049-the-strategic-blunder-of-trump-as-hitler
"But overwrought comparisons to the Nazis are both historically illiterate and an extreme strategic misstep. The president’s critics have crossed a rhetorical line from which there can be no turning back.
That the Trump administration would be compared with Nazi Germany is not surprising. Accusations of “Republicans-as-fascists” long predate this administration. A Democratic congressman accused President Ronald Reagan of “trying to replace the Bill of Rights with fascist precepts lifted verbatim from ‘Mein Kampf.’ ” In more recent times, recall Keith Olbermann’s tarring of President George W. Bush as a “fascist” in an on-air segment in 2008, an appellation also bestowed upon other members of the Bush administration.
Perhaps memories of the unfair accusations of fascism experienced by her husband explain Laura Bush’s decision to break ranks and instead go with a tortuous comparison of separating families of illegal border-crossers with the internment of Japanese-American citizens, keeping with the World War II theme but without resorting to outright accusations of Nazism.
Others, however, have no such compunction. Members of Congress, former officials, reporters and TV commentators have tweeted comparisons of U.S. detention facilities to Nazi concentration camps or issued none-too-subtle invocations of gas chambers in their tweets about children being led away from their parents by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents. Reporters have peppered administration officials with questions about their “Nazi” tactics."
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funny link here..….
Of course the CFR flagship journal has to "watch for signs of creeping authoritarianism" continually...… defining "authoritarianism" as dissident voices and calling them "reliably wacky".
big ha ha bro.
I know you're an addict. you'll be back tonight.
lauriandres
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One Brow,
What i meant - is that OK or should be not tolerated if somebody is using a chinese soldier make-up and costume which looks similar what chinese used when conquering the Tibet? Or when being a Hutu look-alike? Or are you serious about it that you do not know what happened in Rwanda in 1994? Although it seems that now some Democrats would find a reason that this genocide was also fault of the Republicans and those blacks who performed the killings did the right thing. If showing a Soviet Union or Chinese flag is OK, then why not the swastika? Isn't it a some what double standard? IMHO the Idaho teachers performance was quite South Parkish and therefore i wonder why it was so big fuss about it.
Thank you for clarifying.
There is a history to some symbols and their uses in a local culture that make them toxic to that culture. Using a swastika in Europe or the US has a different meaning than using it in Tibet, to my understanding. This is also possibly true (with reverse implications) for using a Chinese flag in Tibet or the US. Dressing as a Hutu in the US is unlikely to disturb a nearby Tutsi.
I don't know anything significant about the Idaho teachers, their town, or why they chose costumes about being Mexican and being a wall. I have no comment on that.
Red
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Yes, I do remember saying that. And I'll leave it at that. I actually wrote a detailed reply, but I have erased it. Out of respect for the OP's intent with this thread. I may have already ignored that intent, but this latest would have really been beyond the pale, so I deleted it.
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