
Imma just say one thing and not saying it definitely applies to your family but a vast amount of the people targeted my Soviet’s were indeed fascists or fascists sympathizers. So much so that a Canadian memorial dedicated to some of those killed in the purges was blank because all the names to be put on where discovered to have been purged for being collaborators with the Nazis. Food for thought.
If it makes you feel better my (great) grandfather was killed in one of the bloodiest battles of the Korean War and I gotta somehow justify that from an American perspective (why were we in Korea in the first place) and from a left perspective (did the Americans there deserve to die for what they did to the north?)
It just feels so horrible knowing that for virtually every war fought, a group od people could have just sat down instead and had a reasonable dialogue. They might not have come out of it with everything they wanted to attain, but millions who died would still be alive today. It makes a lot more sense however when you view this ideology on a micro scale, and personally it makes me mad at everyone who believes it.
We might not agree on politics, but I think our view on humanity is very in sync. Like I think the most immediate threat to America is Trump/maga obv but they’re an entire different breed of conservatism more akin to the Nazis than to the party of Reagan or the bush’s. But I think the most long lasting and damaging thing overall to America is the loss of common reasoning and understanding of the opposing sides beliefs. Ever since the fairness doctrine was removed polarization has skyrocketed..
I think thats what most people miss in politics in general. They're a continuation of your moral beliefs, and in almost every case both sides want the same thing morally, only differing on ideas about how to get there. Left and right aren't and shouldn't be enemies, as much as opponents in method or even just acquaintances. The best outcomes in democracy come when we work together and each gives up little concessions, but it can only work if both sides are serious and debate in good faith.
And oftentimes the exact same morals are used, just justified or valued in different ways. Like the whole abortion thing, I totally get that a *majority* of pro life people genuinely do care about the life of the unborn child and view its ability to live as the most valuable thing. Wish more people on the left understood that, and I wish that more people understood that people on the left don’t want to just kill for the sake of it, but rather want to make an informed decision over…
Like society itself, if you go from hunter gatherer Stone Age through all ages to the modern day, the natural progression of society is leftward. It’s just a matter of maintaining a steady rate of change. Change too quick, power vacuums open and set society back decades if not centuries. Change too little, society stagnates and collapses. We need to mediate that, not jump back and forth
I disagree vehemently. The Soviet’s did not organize their entire society around the complete destruction of an ethnic group or rather all ethnic groups that were not them. The Soviet’s did many bad things yes but those are directly caused by the authoritarian nature of the system not the leftwing nature of their economic system. The Soviet’s did not conduct a Holocaust. The Nazis did. You trying to equate a government that attempted to exterminate an entire ethnic group to one that was not.
What you are describing is the paradox of tolerance and is a rabbit whole many liberals fall in. You would tolerate a person/a party/ a belief system that calls for the extermination of people deemed lesser based on nothing more then their skin/race/sex/ethnicity/religion/etc. you would tolerate Nazis and white supremacy. I do not tolerate that. I do not tolerate the belief that one group of people is superior because of their skin or their religion or their bloodline. None of that matters.
The Nazis deserved to die because of their beliefs and the actions that were directly inspired by those beliefs. They sought to purge the world of non Germanic peoples. The Soviet’s did nothing close to that. They were aggressive in their liquidation of oligarchs and in their nationalization. That is in NO WAY the same as what the Nazis did.
Objectively killing is wrong. When that is done in true self defense it is justifiable. I’m not defending what the Soviet’s did but Thwre is a rationale behind it. The Nazis logic was build on white superiority and racism. Tjats not tolerable and those beliefs should be destroyed. There are objective truths in the world and the notion that white people are superior is objectively false and should be destroyed root and stem.
No? What about when those people with those beliefs commit atoexities over and over and then are given asylum and come to you country and spread those same diseased ideologies. Nazism is a disease and must be destroyed. If that means prohibiting its followers from participating in society then so be it. Nazism/white supremacy/fascism etc. can not be tolerated even as a belief system bc it is a cancer. It will fester and grow. Look at the USA now. We imported Nazis in the late 40s /early 50s
Now those beliefs have taken over our country. I will not tolerate Nazis. Holding those beliefs is just as dangerous as carrying them out. This is not even close to trumps attacks on transgender advocates for holding pro trans beliefs either. Nazis want to destroy. Progressives and the left as a general whole sim to create.
My guy I’m not saying we should go execute the cranky old lady down the street who is kinda racist I’m talking about the dudes that join paramilitary groups with wet dreams about gunning down and torturing minorities. Some people can not be reasoned with. Sure you wanna try to change their mind fine but that should not be allowed to participate in society. They are a larger danger than serial killers. They are a systemic rot.
There is no value in a Nazis life. If you chose to be a Nazi. If you March through Charlottesville chanting blood and soil, call for the death of women/jews/blacks/gays/etc I will not tolerate you. If you want to then all the power to you but I will not tolerate Nazis. I fully believe the ideology is a cancer and destroys those it infects. How do you come back from calling for the mas murder of children? How do you come back from planning it? How do you come back from doing it? Can you?
Okay tjat is a good point. I’ll agree on that. Hard labor for ideological nazis is smth I can get behind. I will stand on my point that someone who commits an act to forward those beliefs should be put down, and trust me I do value human life but Nazis are a different breed I find myself lacking any compassion or hope for them to be re-educated.
I think we should allow for proven rehabilitation and with parole and the like, same as any other crime. Scaled to the level of their involvement and belief. Like if some 18 year old joined the proud boys after growing up to neo Nazis in rural Idaho where that’s all they know, I think they’d be deserving of a second chance considering they grew up in that world, never having the chance of knowing better.
I think I do generally agree with you statement and I’ve just been really pissed off today. Generally I am a forgiving person but it is so revolting and illogical to myself to see someone that is a different color or ethnicity or religion and think they are evil because of that. People see evil because of their beliefs (and actions) not those unchangeable factors. I ageee youth who joined a far right militia should not be punished in the same way as say the grand wizard of the kkk should be.
I have heard of that story and I think it’s great however that doesn’t change all the harm he’s done and should face consequences for. There needs to be consequences for these men (and women) like the KKK leadership, proud boy’s, Jan6ers, the Neo Nazis that marched in Charlottesville, etc. rehabilitation is great but this is not the same as some petty crime or drug use. This needs punishment.