Generational Dynamics World View

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(08-31-2020, 09:24 AM)David Horn Wrote:

(08-30-2020, 12:52 PM)John J. Xenakis Wrote: ** 30-Aug-2020 World View: Fascist clashes

For weeks, there have been growing incidents of looting and destroying hundreds of small businesses, many black owned, burning buildings, smashing cars, smashing people, killing people and other violence by the antifa-blm fascists in cities across the country with Democratic party mayors.

The Democrats and mainstream media have been pretending that this increasing fascist violence doesn't exist, for obvious reasons.

But today, things are changing.  Now that there have been pro-Trump vigilante groups clashing with the antifa-blm fascists in Portland and Kenosha, the Democrats and mainstream media are suddenly able to report the violence, since they can blame it on Trump.

Isn't this wonderful?  Maybe we'll soon be treated to antifa-blm fascists clashing with tea-partier-trump-supporter fascists and killing each other in streets across the country.  Won't that be fun?

Painting with your typical narrow brush, and one decidedly the wrong color.  Are Antifa violent? Yes, but not at anywhere near the level you seem to believe. In fact, the violence emerges predominantly from the right.

Paradoxically, rioters cannot legitimately trust Black Lives Matters protesters as allies. Police brutality as against the late George Floyd has some conservative opposition, and such conservative opposition to police brutality gives no carte blanche to looting, assault, or arson. Yes, it is well past time to take down  statues praising Confederate military and political leaders whom the Southern racist established as heroes... about a hundred years ago. Considering that those statues were usually erected about fifty years after the end of the Civil War, about when the second KKK formed, those are more expressions of hurt feelings than of heroism. Those figures depict people who dragooned large numbers of poor white youth as cannon fodder to prevent the emancipation of slaves. 

I can only imagine what a black child sees in such statues, as those are often in the areas in which the population is now majority-black. Can people who strove to keep one's black ancestors in bondage be heroes? Such statues would be as offensive to blacks who align themselves with real heroes who struggled against Jim Crow as statues to Nazis and Stalinists would be in central or Balkan Europe today. 

I have my idea of how to display the Confederate flag. Aside from memorials to Confederate dead from the Civil War... I suggest that it be disgraced, placed with these flags:



(Stalin-era variant)



(war flag of the Salo Republic, Nazi puppet state in Italy)







(two defunct commie regimes)



(a Commie regime which I wish were defunct -- the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, which is not democratic by any means, badly treats the Korean people unfortunate enough to live there, and is really an absolute, hereditary monarchy)


  

the Apartheid flag




flag associated with Satan Hussein





ISIS flag -- illegal in the German Federal Republic as an expression of an "extreme right, neo-Nazi cause"...  

and one other all-too-obvious flag also illegal in the German Federal Republic