Comments by "Orwellian Horseman of the Apocalypse" (@DennisMoore664) on "The Jimmy Dore Show"
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@nonameslb - HUSH! Don't even talk about it. Chomsky is a unique and singularly stupendous intellect whose passing will leave a huge hole in the world. But there are other brilliant and learned minds that understand what he and Zinn (and like you say, so many more greats who have come before and moved on) have talked and written about, and at least their voices will continue to remind us of them in the years we have left.
Not trying to equate anyone with Chomsky, but I think of Chris Hedges and cheer for his voice. And I see my brothers and sisters in his audiences and know that at least I am not alone in these painful days. But we are all at the end of an age. Too much is changing too quickly across a the spectrum of our global collective existence and we're all interconnected in ways we have never been before. I suspect we're all going to loose a hell of a lot, if not everything, all too soon. Historically, frightened groups of people tend to do stupid and terrible things. And when they can rally around a central idolized figure, especially a narcissistic, con-man, who really knows how to work up a crowd, I really don't know. Check back with me in two years and let's see how the things have gone - if you still can.
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Username [Redacted] - Dude, most of us that chose to watch this know that the same way American is often used to indicate the archetypal white anglo saxon protestant from North America, Mexican is used to group together all people of indian, spanish and portuguese ancestry from throughout the Americas. It's the reason you see other national ethnic groups applied as a prefix to American. Even the poor Canadians probably get labeled as Americans unless they say about or eh? as in "Don't call me an American! I'm Canadian Eh?!!".
It's all racist as fuck, but until we choose to stop describing and dividing each other by our ancestry, Mexican is both the people of Mexico proper and a racially charged term to describe (usually in a derogatory way) any other person who isn't white, black, asian or middle eastern - though plenty of the people in Montana and most of the United States probably couldn't tell the difference between a person from the middle east or a person from latin america. And that's partly because there are plenty of racist people and partly because there are so few minorities of any ethnicity for anyone to interact with let alone have as a friend in places like Montana, Idaho, West Texas or pretty much any rural area in any state. There are exceptions, but not many. Joining the military is the first experience a lot of young people from states and rural areas with very few non-white (other than native american) populations have with a wide range of people from other ethnic backgrounds.
I don't trust the established order to do it, but having a universal period of national service that ALL of us have to serve in, from graduation or when someone is ready to complete a GED until they are 21, would be one of the best things to actually help us learn about our neighbors and the bigger world and actually start to Make America Great Again, but Donny and the Cons don't really want to do that - not for everyone. But that's a different post for a different day.
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