Is Russia becoming the scapegoat to the hard left?

[Yukaphile]

Also valid. I mean, Jill Stein's voters think it's a non-issue. But even so, what Darth Wedgius says about the truth of diversity rings true. I've known hard lefters who hate SJWs, ironically. It's not just center of righters.

[CmdrKing]

"Identity Politics is just a means for the neoliberals to distract us from the only thing that matters, classism". I'm familiar with the type. They are fools.

(For the record I think it is prudent to take some measures to block ratfuckers from their ratfucking in electoral politics, but it's hardly the only or even most important step to creating fairer elections in the US.)

[Yukaphile]

Well, I have my own issues with this because Russia, as a culture, is a nation of karma houdinis. Germans can't stop apologizing even though that was 70 years ago, while Russia has not apologized once and continues the same kind of aggressive expansion campaigns they did back then. And of course, for the average citizen, they can't control this, but they also bend down out of fear, and for those they can make a difference in, like examining their family history, because they're naive, gullible, and believe only what they want to like most people they don't want to reexamine it or if they do, filter it through all the wrong misrepresented political lens, bleh.

[BridgeConsoleMasher]

I've never once heard of Germany in more modern day apologizing for WWII, and I don't particularly think they should be or anything. Can anybody explain what Yuka is referring to there?

[Yukaphile]

I could name an example. A German doctor studying the long-term psychological traumatic effects on war abuse victims then, civilians and mostly underage girls, also insists he knows there was "sexual abuse" in the camps, but... why the FUCKING HELL would you bring that up? You're discussing these victims, not the Holocaust victims, and it's one more way the women and girls of Eastern Europe were shoved aside in favor of the Holocaust as a political agenda when there was bleed-over with the Holocaust and camp prisoners. It seems more like conforming to what the world expects of them to "bear the guilt" of their sins. That same dude then attended a giant shaming conference which cited debunked age-old notions of collective guilt applied to civilian women in a severe patriarchy with broad-ranging language, unfortunate implications, and in front of a law official from Harvard, which is just frightening... because you don't get to be a damned criminal by having mistaken beliefs! It's from what you do, engaging in immoral or illegal acts. And I don't wanna be that guy, but technically doing what the state wanted wasn't illegal, because they ruled the laws. It was clearly immortal, but a result of function from the corrupt leadership, NOT the civilians. Collective guilt is bullshit for those civilians, especially women in a patriarchy that held them back, when enforced upon them by others and a cultural attitude, who downplay their pain, misrepresent the victims, even in official works, and those who were guilty, and simply try and filter both through a "false equivalency" mindset, or misrepresent what drove the guilty party simply out of a political agenda. You cannot just do that and anonymously say "Whoops, my bad!" several decades later. It just doesn't work that way.

[BridgeConsoleMasher]

Yeah that verges into babbling pretty quickly.

[Yukaphile]

I want justice for these people, and justice can't happen with a political agenda for both sides, for downplaying one side's pain and trying to paint the other side as just as wounded, or when people don't take a clear moral side. Justice isn't all about accountability. It is a viewpoint, a mindset, a way of life and thinking. I know it's all based off our own biased opinions, and that people still believe the conventional wisdom most of the time, but damn it, we need to take a moral stand on this. For the future, for justice, for individualism, and for the betterment of us all.