Time may be passing so slowly that we forget that the last Martin Luther King anniversary was observed when Barack Obama was President. Barely, but this is still true.
The President that we now have has disparaged countries in which people resembling Martin Luther King as $#!+holes, and preferring that people seeking to start new lives in America would come from countries whose peoples are largely light-skinned (like Norway). But let us understand well -- no matter how underdeveloped a country is in its economics and how rotten its political system... I suppose that one could have described the Jim Crow South, let alone Nazi Germany, as political $#!+holes, too ... very good people can come from thoroughly-rotten places.
This is the sort of thing that made the American South (and in those days Oklahoma was Southern in its politics) a laughing stock on race relations.
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For the definitive $!+hole, just think of what happened behind a gate like this:
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All in the name of either white supremacy or "Aryan" power.
Sure, Donald Trump isn't "that bad". That is no excuse.
It is 1101 days, 0 hours, 48 minutes, 26 seconds -- three years and six days. Three long years and six days.
https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/to...me=generic
The President that we now have has disparaged countries in which people resembling Martin Luther King as $#!+holes, and preferring that people seeking to start new lives in America would come from countries whose peoples are largely light-skinned (like Norway). But let us understand well -- no matter how underdeveloped a country is in its economics and how rotten its political system... I suppose that one could have described the Jim Crow South, let alone Nazi Germany, as political $#!+holes, too ... very good people can come from thoroughly-rotten places.
This is the sort of thing that made the American South (and in those days Oklahoma was Southern in its politics) a laughing stock on race relations.
For the definitive $!+hole, just think of what happened behind a gate like this:
All in the name of either white supremacy or "Aryan" power.
Sure, Donald Trump isn't "that bad". That is no excuse.
It is 1101 days, 0 hours, 48 minutes, 26 seconds -- three years and six days. Three long years and six days.
https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/to...me=generic
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.