I'm convinced Americans need to have a boogie man at all times. So so much of the anti-China propaganda is coming from just a handful of sources and I forgot the name of the guy but he is some crazy ultra religious dude that hates China and has been making up so called human rights issues like that organ harvesting shit. He is a total whack job but it doesn't stop those types of posts getting widely circulated or upvoted highly on reddit. I feel like "normal" people just amplify this and people who oppose this are basically ignored. Americans just have to have a world super power enemy to also justify the insane military spending and imperialism too. Some of those people that are super anti-China for the so called human rights violations literally don't care about anything the US undeniably does and the mountains of shit the intelligence agencies have done in the past.
If someone remembers the name of the guy I'm talking about, please let me know, I should know his name by now but just simply don't remember. IIRC he is in the fulan gong
There's an academic by the name of Morris Berman who believes that the US defines itself by a "negative" identity, that is, to identify yourself by what you oppose. i.e: "savage native" vs. civilized Christian pioneer, master vs slave, black vs white, free world vs. iron curtain, etc.
Because it lacks a positive identity, an identity with affirmative values of its own, when the subject introspects into its own character and finds a void, it reacts violently.
That sounds suspiciously a lot like how Neo-Conservatives interact with their negative or anti-politics.
Literally just listed to a podcast today about Phyllis Schlafly and her involvement in the rise of the modern far-right, Qanon type of conservative that helped trump come into power.
Her whole purpose, in her mind, was to be soo Anti-Communist that she spun and re-branded anything considered even remotely progressive, or anti-nuclear family as being communist and tried to put a stop to it.
With this type of rhetoric we're already too progressive, so being regressive and against anything libs are doing is the only way to fight the threat of communism.
We can thank her in large part to the election of Trump
This is literally just a continual trend of republican ideas of the polity, there's always a group outside of it that is a threat. One of the key insights of Marx is to overcome that and get a polity that is truly inclusive with all human beings equally in the demos.
The second Americans accept at large that weare the bad guys, the ruling class will be in deep shit, so we're doomed for them to constantly be propping up bad guys until the end of time.
Ehhh, I figure that given the choice between "continue to be villains" and "unemployment goes up and stock market goes down", a large chunk of ordinary Americans would choose the former.
I'm convinced Americans need to have a boogie man at all times. So so much of the anti-China propaganda is coming from just a handful of sources and I forgot the name of the guy but he is some crazy ultra religious dude that hates China and has been making up so called human rights issues like that organ harvesting shit. He is a total whack job but it doesn't stop those types of posts getting widely circulated or upvoted highly on reddit. I feel like "normal" people just amplify this and people who oppose this are basically ignored. Americans just have to have a world super power enemy to also justify the insane military spending and imperialism too. Some of those people that are super anti-China for the so called human rights violations literally don't care about anything the US undeniably does and the mountains of shit the intelligence agencies have done in the past.
If someone remembers the name of the guy I'm talking about, please let me know, I should know his name by now but just simply don't remember. IIRC he is in the fulan gong
Zyklon Zenz.
holy fuck meme this to the motherfucking moon
YES, thank you! That's the one.
By the way, the 'falun gong*' chap you were thinking about is someone else, probably the one from China Uncensored.
Ah okay, cause I know the falun gong are super into conspiracy theories that westerners are also eating up, so I figured he was part of them too.
There's an academic by the name of Morris Berman who believes that the US defines itself by a "negative" identity, that is, to identify yourself by what you oppose. i.e: "savage native" vs. civilized Christian pioneer, master vs slave, black vs white, free world vs. iron curtain, etc.
Because it lacks a positive identity, an identity with affirmative values of its own, when the subject introspects into its own character and finds a void, it reacts violently.
Or so Berman claims.
That sounds suspiciously a lot like how Neo-Conservatives interact with their negative or anti-politics.
Literally just listed to a podcast today about Phyllis Schlafly and her involvement in the rise of the modern far-right, Qanon type of conservative that helped trump come into power. Her whole purpose, in her mind, was to be soo Anti-Communist that she spun and re-branded anything considered even remotely progressive, or anti-nuclear family as being communist and tried to put a stop to it.
With this type of rhetoric we're already too progressive, so being regressive and against anything libs are doing is the only way to fight the threat of communism.
We can thank her in large part to the election of Trump
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This is literally just a continual trend of republican ideas of the polity, there's always a group outside of it that is a threat. One of the key insights of Marx is to overcome that and get a polity that is truly inclusive with all human beings equally in the demos.
The second Americans accept at large that weare the bad guys, the ruling class will be in deep shit, so we're doomed for them to constantly be propping up bad guys until the end of time.
Ehhh, I figure that given the choice between "continue to be villains" and "unemployment goes up and stock market goes down", a large chunk of ordinary Americans would choose the former.