Right here in River City (well, mostly California, but throughout the
US) the 1930's "Mexican Repatriation Act" deported on the order of 1-2M
US Citizens because of their ethnicity (along with a smaller number of
non-Citizens more recently immigrated from Mexico), qualifying for our
modern definition of "ethnic cleansing".
Kyi's Nobel prize is 15 years old. Is she far enough out of touch with
the realities of her country to not actually KNOW the difference between
a pogrom being executed by her military/people and a "righteous" effort
to deal with a real terrorist problem? No reason to believe a Nobel
prize magically puts you above such behaviours I guess!
On 9/14/17 6:42 PM, Roger Critchlow wrote:
Hmm, my NPR station was talking about how Myanmar is committed to the
lie that there is no Rohingya minority to be persecuted, only illegal
Bengali immigrants who are being deported back to Bangladesh, this
despite historical evidence that the earliest Bengali settlements
began in the 15th century and most of the population centers were
established in the 17th century. Hence we have a Nobel Peace Prize
recipient presiding over a government pursuing a policy of ethnic
cleansing under the guise of immigration reform.
So I don't think I really care if the Trumpistas think he's being
persecuted. He deserves to be persecuted for being such a liar on
questions of life or death.
-- rec --
On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 4:36 PM, gⅼеɳ ☣ <geprope...@gmail.com
<mailto:geprope...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Cautionary tales are nothing to be afraid of. I think this is
something completely misunderstood by people who don't watch
enough horror movies. You don't watch The Walking Dead and think
"Don't open that door! Don't open the door!!!!" You watch it and
*know* that if you were there, you'd open the door, too. The
trick is how you would do it and what it means to do it.
On 09/14/2017 01:27 PM, Merle Lefkoff wrote:
> Have any of you been watching the t.v. Hulu series of Margaret
Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale"? I read it three decades ago and
it is spooking me out once more because the understory is the
normalization of a subversive societal move toward a dystopian
fascist state. It's promoted as science fiction, but it's very
real and beware-- incredibly hard to watch. Women in the new
society, of course, get the worst of it. Duh.
--
☣ gⅼеɳ
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