06-13-2020, 05:04 AM
(06-13-2020, 02:43 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: Well, technically...
CNN says...
CNN Wrote:In the wake of George Floyd's killing, the Movement for Black Lives -- already a massive global force -- has succeeded in birthing a phenomenon infinitely larger than itself. It can only be called a "Great Awakening" of empathy and solidarity, one without historical precedent.
Should someone explain that the name for this event without historical precedent has been taken?
No No. This is a crisis...
Unlike the Civil Rights struggle in America (largely in an Awakening, but to a lesser extent in a High -- don't under-estimate the role of GI and even Lost blacks in the struggle for ethnic equity in the 1950's) and People Power in the Philippines or the anti-Communist revolutions in central and Balkan Europe that occurred in the more benign phase of a 3T as an expression of a libertarian trend.... I am not quite sure of where to put the anti-Apartheid struggle in South Africa... this event is in a Crisis Era, and in the most volatile part of a Crisis Era things change rapidly and decisively.
Donald Trump and his political allies are clearly on the wrong side of history now, and having mucked things up so badly they will be fortunate if the accounting for their misdeeds and incompetence will be gentle. Confederate stuff has become an anathema with amazing haste. The US Marine Corps has banned all Confederate emblems, and NASCAR has demanded their elimination. Mississippi seems set to change its flag to remove the Flag of the Defense of Slavery.
(I have suggested that the appropriate places for displays of the Confederate flag, aside from existing monuments to the Confederate battle dead, is among other flags of disgrace such as the Nazi flag, the Soviet flag, the flag of "Democratic Kampuchea" (Khmer Rouge), the flag of the Italian Social Republic (Mussolini's puppet state), the Apartheid era flag of South Africa, the flag of Satan Hussein's Iraq, the ISIS banner, and the current flag of North Korea.
We Americans are catching on to the hard reality that racism is a means of dividing and controlling us. We are also learning that the sleaziness of the previous 3T offers nothing but pain and danger.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.