Comments by "L.W. Paradis" (@l.w.paradis2108) on "Yanis Varoufakis on Israel’s war crimes" video.

  1. Every single one of these Congress members who say they are not seeking to punish Rashida Tlaib for First Amendment protected speech is flat-out lying. Congress could have passed a resolution distancing themselves from Tlaib's statements and affirming their support for Israel, if they were so hot to. Instead, it voted to censure her, which is a finding of wrongdoing for having spoken and a formal reprimand for her words. This is a punishment, which they doled out to chill protected speech. They swore to protect and defend the Constitution, so I guess they betrayed their oath.
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  2. SAME
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  3. The Ustasi were a small group of Nazi collaborators who were able to exterminate Yugoslav Jews, Serbs, and resistance fighters (such as many Croatian and Slovenian Catholic priests) because of the Nazi occupation. Nedic had a national socialist ideology, but wasn't in a position to participate in any genocide, and Chetnicks were a very mixed bag. Most were simply royalists by default and resisted the Nazis and helped Jews escape. Yet some (very few) even committed war crimes. They weren't as centrally organized the way the other two groups were. The March 27th revolt that brought down the Yugoslav government which had signed a non-aggression pact with Hitler took place in Belgrade, and most of the participants were Serbs. Their ethnicity was not central to their resistance. There weren't many Ustasi, this is true, and most regions of Croatia had few or none. (Did Dalmatia have any? It wasn't a hotspot of collaboration, that's for sure.) They were able to do what they did only because of the Nazi occupation. It's not likely they would have been able, or willing, to do anything of the sort had there been no blitzkrieg and no occupation. In 1941 and after, most Serbs were to the left of most Croatians. Most Serbs were less racially biased than most Croatians. Generalizations, yes, but factual ones. You're just taking sides instead of telling the truth. "It was them, not us!!" --- that stance always reveals who you are.
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  4. Do we know this with any certainty? I have an open mind on it, I don't deny it.
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