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diff --git a/faith/racism-and-pron.rst b/faith/racism-and-pron.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9e7e93c --- /dev/null +++ b/faith/racism-and-pron.rst @@ -0,0 +1,94 @@ +Hate, racism, and pornography +############################# + +:date: 2016-12-06T22:29:06 +:status: draft +:category: faith +:tags: blogcomment, politics + +(reply to the Common sense no. 308_) + +.. _308: + http://www.dancarlin.com/product/common-sense-308-return-of-the-podcaster/ + +While I was listening to the show and thought about Dan’s +rambling on + +* it is like porn, people just got a new huge horn and they feel + need to blast it. In the same time, we listeners, are not used + to the junk and we don't know how to tune out. Testimony of + the experience of the early 1990s in the post-Communist Czechia + To some extent we should just get used to the flat world. Next + time we will get better … overreaction from ignorance … the + next time we will know that Duke should be just ignored, and we + shouldn't get trolled into doing something stupid. + +* talking about 1990s, i do remember our relationships with the + Russia. It was time of miracles, but we really expected that we + all post-Communist nations would get free eventually. Yes, + there was Romania (whose revolution was anything but velvet) or + Yugoslavia, but we all expected that these teething problems + (quite horrible in case of Yugoslavia) would be overcome and + then that we all would be *normal* (there was actually then + significantly little of the ideology, we just wanted to be + normal like everybody else). And we believed the same for + Russia. In some aspects they started even earlier with Glasnost + and Perestroyka, and yes their situation was (as expected) + quite horrible, but I do remember how incredibly little hatred + and plenty of good will towards Russia there was considering + the Russian state was our occupier for the past forty years or + so (in various forms and shapes). + + A side note. It was quite shocking how much of the goodwill + there was towards Russians after 1991 in the post-Communist + Central and Eastern Europe nations, considering they were the + occupants for more than forty years (under various means, and + yes it is more complicated). All those talks by the + Conservative pundits hoping to restore the Cold War stability + when they could talk it over with their colleagues in Kremlin + (see Dan Carlin’s Common Sense) are completely wrong when + they consider the West at least partial blameworthy of the + current relationship with Russia. I really believe that the + Yeltsin (with all his problems) tried to make Russia just + a more or less normal member of the community of normal + states of the world. Yes, he hugely failed and 1990s in + Russia could be characterized like something between mess and + mafia wars, but + +* of course, all this bad stuff is mightily amplified by all + professional media, because when it bleeds, it leads. So, we + have now in the newspapers inch headlines about the supposed + hatred towards Roma, which means that they have nothing real to + write about. Yes, there is a lot of hatred against Roma in + Czechia, but it is nothing new and journalists have really no + new news, just trying to instigate the feeling of outrage among + the readers; + +* there is also the other pendulum … not only between the right + and left, but also between fringes and centers. We have been + for a long time in the political environment where all + politicians were stuck in the middle. Times when Bill Clinton + was a way more free-market supporter than supposedly right-side + George Bush with his biggest government spending since Lyndon + Johnson. Of course, I don't like the radical politics, but + perhaps if the politicians of different sides of the political + spectrum were distinguishable from each other, it could help to + prevent the panic a bit. + +* and of course, journalists have absolutely zero concept of long + time. What matters is how to sell the papers today, who cares + that probably the panic will go away next week, that's seven + releases down the road. + +- DON’T PANIC! I think the biggest danger is that we will make + a lot of panicky decisions. “World is falling apart, so let's + throw out all rules out of the window!” Remember, Korematsu_ + case is still on the US books. + + We will find out some solutions, we will learn how to deal with + the social networks in more sane ways, perhaps politicians will + turn back to thinking about what is liberal and what is + conservative or socialist. Only we shouldn't screw up by panic. + +.. _Korematsu: + https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korematsu_v._United_States |