Extremists across the spectrum need to be challenged & culturally marginalized relentlessly, and most importantly, by those who have been spinning and deflecting for them.
But also this sort of thing needs to be dealt with at school, when kids are young, when they learn who they are and what life is about. Problem is the very same right wing fascists call this indoctrination, because they know it goes against their very thoughts.
Agreed. My only concern is when it goes overboard, when we hear about "white shaming" and whites apologizing for the color of their skin. We ALWAYS over-shoot, it appears to be an American tradition.
My kids had an advantage, growing up in a mixed-race family, but from what I saw, kids really don't give a shit about skin color right now. What I don't want to see is us going too far.
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You are right to be concerned about ""white shaming" and whites apologizing for the color of their skin."
From what I have been reading, this is how the iGen and GenX has become the biggest core group of this new ultra-right reactionary political movement. Did you notice in the film and pictures of these marches and protests, very few older people? I am attempting to inoculate my teen from this sort of craziness right now.
I found this article informative on the root of this madness. It is known as reactionary politics. This nation is only reaping what it has sown after eight years of the MSM telling the masses that Zionism is cool, Black nationalism is cool, but white identity is evil and institutional racism is so prevalent, it's the worst thing since genocide.
I don't think a lot of people understand what reactionary politics is, and it's real and very dangerous consequences.
Californian Who Helped Lead Charlottesville Protests Used Berkeley as a Test Run
Californian Who Helped Lead Charlottesville Protests Used Berkeley as a Test Run
Good luck with that.
We raised our girls in a good hard working Christian environment yet when my youngest went off to college she came out completely radicalized with anti capitalist points of view that would put me out of business.
The damage being done to our youth & our society via the education system is real & I consider it a MAJOR threat to the future stability of our nation.
When I was at University I met one of my mentor's, he fought in WWII, was captured, and he was a prisoner in a German Prison of War camp under the Nazi's.
He was known as being VERY liberal, but he absolutely HATED state socialism. He is known to have wrote one of the top twenty short stories that criticized socialism, very scathing. It makes the point, equality of opportunity is fine, but having the government try to engineer equality of out come for all is absurd. Every wanna be progressive/socialist should read it, keeping in mind, this was a very liberal minded man.
HARRISON BERGERON by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
In light of recent events, I had my kid read his novel,
Mother Night, it seeks to explain, that it is governments that in the end, control and push how we view one another, and that who we pretend to be, is, in the end, who we will be, despite our protestations to the contrary. Finding a copy of the movie became a headache. You can pay to see it on-line, still, but don't count on it for very long. The internet is becoming more and more controlled with less and less free speech. I have been made aware that a popular racist web site, one our friend Steve McGarret likes (the dailystormer I think, it had to do with an essay concerning the topic we are discussing) to go to is no longer being allowed to be hosted. I find any infringement on free speech abhorrent, but since the web is no longer regulated by the US, as Vonnegut would say, ". . . so it goes."
It's too bad, I really wanted to read that essay that the establishment doesn't want us to read. What was so offensive, what ideas don't they want us to read? I'm not a nationalist, I'm not a racist, but I get damn suspicious of the State and global hierarchy when they start censoring shit. How can I fight against bad ideas if I don't know what they are?
I did track down a pirated copy of the movie
Mother Night from Korea though, so now I will own it for all time. If you have a chance to rent it from the internet, read the book, or get a copy, enlighten yourself. There is a black Nazi in it. What a sense of humor.
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