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  1. Comment on <deleted topic> in ~misc

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    If you're referring to Nazism specifically, sure, but I think the link between Arab nationalism and Nazism was much more transient and spontaneous.

    If you're referring to Nazism specifically, sure, but I think the link between Arab nationalism and Nazism was much more transient and spontaneous.

    7 votes

  2. Comment on <deleted topic> in ~misc

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    Al-Husseini was a nationalist whose opposition to Zionist colonialism dovetailed into Nazi political ideology, but that was all just of its time, not some consequence of deep-seated ethnic prejudice.

    Al-Husseini was a nationalist whose opposition to Zionist colonialism dovetailed into Nazi political ideology, but that was all just of its time, not some consequence of deep-seated ethnic prejudice.

    7 votes

  3. Comment on <deleted topic> in ~misc

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    I don't think you can just summarize early Palestinian hostility to zionists as simple prejudice. Arabs had a long history of coexisting with Jewish populations, but Zionist immigration started in...

    I don't think you can just summarize early Palestinian hostility to zionists as simple prejudice. Arabs had a long history of coexisting with Jewish populations, but Zionist immigration started in a context of competing nationalist independence movements in the region and an ongoing history of colonialism that played a much bigger role in early conflict, I think, and Israel was formed out of the power dynamics of those things.

    17 votes

  4. Comment on Cyberpunk 2077 epileptic PSA in ~games

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    I used to get minor seizures too, and I similarly got a very strong deja vue feeling with them which sounds like what you're describing. Definitely a memory or temporal lobe thing. I also kind of...

    I used to get minor seizures too, and I similarly got a very strong deja vue feeling with them which sounds like what you're describing. Definitely a memory or temporal lobe thing. I also kind of miss having them, although they were pretty uncomfortable sometimes.

    1 vote

  5. Comment on Why mainstream progressives have a strong incentive to 'sanewash' hard leftist positions in ~society

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    That seems very reductive to me. The alternative to Ilhan Omar in that race wasn't a quasi-fascist cheese ball.

    That seems very reductive to me. The alternative to Ilhan Omar in that race wasn't a quasi-fascist cheese ball.

    3 votes

  6. Comment on Why mainstream progressives have a strong incentive to 'sanewash' hard leftist positions in ~society

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    I don't think the Omar/Biden example is very good evidence of your point. It just shows that there were more centrist or rightist Democrats that were willing to defect down-ballot than there were...

    I don't think the Omar/Biden example is very good evidence of your point. It just shows that there were more centrist or rightist Democrats that were willing to defect down-ballot than there were leftists who were willing to defect up-ballot, which isn't surprising given the circumstances.

    2 votes

  7. Comment on Why mainstream progressives have a strong incentive to 'sanewash' hard leftist positions in ~society

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    Just to add, Trump just received a Republican-record-breaking 70 million votes. That's a big chunk to just reduce down to lost-cause bigots. And if they are, is this the end of politics, it's just...

    Just to add, Trump just received a Republican-record-breaking 70 million votes. That's a big chunk to just reduce down to lost-cause bigots. And if they are, is this the end of politics, it's just 'bigot or not' from here on out?

    8 votes

  8. Comment on The Fed is really running out of firepower in ~finance

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    I'm a little confused, are you saying that spending money into existence will have different effects if it's coming from the Fed or the Treasury?

    I'm a little confused, are you saying that spending money into existence will have different effects if it's coming from the Fed or the Treasury?

    1 vote

  9. Comment on In ‘lobster war,’ indigenous Canadians face attacks by fishermen in ~news

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    Why not both? Humans are pretty complicated.

    To me this just sounds like a case of violence fueled by white supremacy and racism, not economic anxiety.

    Why not both? Humans are pretty complicated.

    3 votes

  10. Comment on Joe Biden can end the drama on election night. All he has to do is win Texas. in ~news

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    You're exactly right that they inform each other and can't be separated. I guess my point was, or should have been, that racism and exploitation have never not coexisted, at least to my...

    You're exactly right that they inform each other and can't be separated. I guess my point was, or should have been, that racism and exploitation have never not coexisted, at least to my understanding of history - both were necessitated by the opportunity to capitalize on the spoils of the new world and the massive demand for plantation products. I think dialogues that focus exclusively on one or the other are hamstrung.

    2 votes

  11. Comment on Joe Biden can end the drama on election night. All he has to do is win Texas. in ~news

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    Imagine if the civil war had just been about racism rather than slavery - we might have black plantation owners today. Of course, that didn't happen because the real conflicts were about the...

    Imagine if the civil war had just been about racism rather than slavery - we might have black plantation owners today. Of course, that didn't happen because the real conflicts were about the actual economic structures underlying power. Today, politicians have no appetite to challenge economic power structures, so we just get southern strategy politics ad nauseum.

    5 votes