Felix... On Mon, Feb 14, 2022 at 10:42:43AM -0800, Felix Lechner wrote: > >All of them were condemned by later generations: the Salem witch hunt; >McCartyism; the cultural revolution in China; collectivisation under >Pol Pot in Cambodia; and perhaps most infamously the many attempts >over time to expel or eradicate the Jews from various territories. > >The collective condition that leads to such madness is now well >understood. It is a group form of splitting and projection [1] that >affects entire societies. The phenomenon is easily recognized once you >understand it. Because of the extreme danger, Orthodox Jews teach it. >[2] > >One of Germany's great insights after World War II was that all calls >for social upheaval are in themselves barbaric. The country now has >special local and federal police agencies to monitor such corrosive >speech (Verfassungsschutz). > >In 1949, Arthur Miller wrote the play "The Crucible" about it. He won >a Pulitzer and many other accolades. In 1954, William Golding dealt >with similar group dynamics in the novel "The Lord of the Flies." He >received the Nobel Prize for Literature. > >I am embarrassed to read the statements above on a Debian mailing >list. It is hate speech, pure and simple—and should be grounds for >expulsion from the project.
Please, for everybody's sake, calm the fuck down. This kind of inflammatory rhetoric isn't helping anything. It does not belong here. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. [email protected] Dance like no one's watching. Encrypt like everyone is. - @torproject
