My country is looking a lot like the one I escaped more and more every day. It worries me, as we reach these new fascistic frontiers. I try talking sense with people over here. Ask them, for instance, how Canadian businesses being shut down for being "non-essential" and a certain race's businesses being shut down in ww2 for being "non-compliant" are so different and you get the leftist gape, before they default to how it must be internalized oppression. Imagine being able to think for myself being a form of oppression.
Bring up how social fascism, by definition, is the state's ideology upheld in exaltation above individual rights or how that one ww2 party was literally an abbreviation of national socialists, you get more of the same... Before they screech about nationalism. Then, you mention how Mandela was a nationalist. As was Gandhi. In fact, Stalin was one too, for the particularly indoctrinated. Given the broadness of the term, you'd think they'd have enough neurons to figure out that nationalism isn't the common denominator amidst the baddies but rather authoritarian overreach, but little gets through. It's so frustrating.
That being said, I haven't bothered discussing any of this with my leftist friends recently. Maybe things have changed. Many have a brain. I knew them when they still could use it. They've just forgotten how and I can only hope they remember.
Cana Da, eh?
My country is looking a lot like the one I escaped more and more every day. It worries me, as we reach these new fascistic frontiers. I try talking sense with people over here. Ask them, for instance, how Canadian businesses being shut down for being "non-essential" and a certain race's businesses being shut down in ww2 for being "non-compliant" are so different and you get the leftist gape, before they default to how it must be internalized oppression. Imagine being able to think for myself being a form of oppression.
Bring up how social fascism, by definition, is the state's ideology upheld in exaltation above individual rights or how that one ww2 party was literally an abbreviation of national socialists, you get more of the same... Before they screech about nationalism. Then, you mention how Mandela was a nationalist. As was Gandhi. In fact, Stalin was one too, for the particularly indoctrinated. Given the broadness of the term, you'd think they'd have enough neurons to figure out that nationalism isn't the common denominator amidst the baddies but rather authoritarian overreach, but little gets through. It's so frustrating.
That being said, I haven't bothered discussing any of this with my leftist friends recently. Maybe things have changed. Many have a brain. I knew them when they still could use it. They've just forgotten how and I can only hope they remember.
"Yuu arr Canay-dien, knot yu arr?"
Seems like those krazy kanucks are going full socialist... You never go full socialist.
Same in the UK.