It thought you were going to explain how "woke" is a bad thing, and how Japanese were counter progressive stuff.
Instead, you give me two links to the current fascist White House propaganda - which makes me wonder if for you, woke is the exact opposite of "christian"?
And a link about a video game which is... related how to woke/progress or conservative/fascism?
What's peculiar is that we are in a situation where we hold so exactly opposite views about... life. Indoctrinated? I could return the exact same thing to you, from the perspective of someone whose families saw the exact same script play thrice: in Italy, in France and in Germany.
> Also, you need help because you are clearly indoctrinated. Wokeism is not Progressive and Conservatism is not Fascism.
No, clearly, conservatism is not fascism. I come from a European, conservatist family, milieu, education; strict, aristocratic heritage (whatever that means today), catholic. It's not an argument of authority, but I do know pretty well, from the inside, what conservatism is, the pretty parts and the ugly parts. And I know what disguises as such and is not. Fascism is of a twisted one of that kind.
However, you visibly haven't noticed, western conservative minds (in the "West" at least) have been cleverly and patiently hijacked by a fascist, white supremacist ideology that has found luck in some technocratic and aristocratic circles, without which it would have no fund, no tools. Precisely what some fought against to death 80 years ago, they are embracing today. And it is no pure accident.
All that conservatives typically value (for short, Christian, patriotic, traditional values) has been used as bait to lure you and others into giving power to something that is the exact opposite, while thinking in good faith that this is good strategy. Twisting actual facts into their own narrative. Raising segments of the society against each other, rather than trying to reconcile and pacify. And unfortunately, given the order in which the scripts plays out, you may not have the time to be sorry at the time they will turn against you, because all those who could have spoken for you will be gone by then.
What an example? You gave me one:
> If "serving every person with equal dignity and respect", "reward individual initiative, skills, performance, and hard work", and "prevent the hiring of individuals based on their race, sex, or religion" are "fascist propaganda" then you need help.
This is double-speak. You take it at face value, of course it's positive and desirable. I would definitely support that. Only, if you look at who's talking, what their history is, what the tone of their speech is, what their skills are, you cannot NOT see what the inter text is.
If you look deep, you'll notice it all leads back to a single first country which is decades ahead of "us" in strategic storytelling, and mass opinion manipulation. The damage to democracy is fast, abyssal, and it will take several decades to fix, if ever.
It will never serve the American people. That's a delusion so enormous it's difficult for most of us in Europe to understand. We saw the exact same script play with the Brexit, and they fell for it (although not as bad as it was planned).
The open question is, was this country capable alone of this level of long-time strategic thinking and coordination, or is it helped by a third one which has mastered this type of thinking for much longer?
All the damage that americans are going to face from now on, as well as probably Europe (Brexit was part of it, Hungary fell for it, so did Italia, France is hardly avoiding a far-right authoritarian take over in 2 years, and so on), is the logical consequence of that hijack in motion. The far-rights already had a rise, but they have seen massive financial and logistical support for the past 10 years.
All I can say is that I'm sorry you bought in the Republicans (or whatever is behind) propaganda and hope you'll stay open to the conversation, wherever it happens on your side, and come back some day from the very, very dark place that is ahead.
There's definitely deep difference in the understanding that comes from a USA person and from a European person. "wokeism" is a clever made-up tag, again, because, as it's not a definite notion, you can swipe a lot of things under it, as a lot of you have done with "socialism" or "communism". But it likely means actually nothing at all.
As for "woke", as it means a different thing historically, and is more difficult to take over by the far-right, I guess we don't put the same value into it.
Gosh, you have no idea how far I am from the left in France. And how far I am from the far-right too. It’s not even on the same axis… but to chose between Le Pen (Putin puppet, as is Trump) or Melenchon (Putin puppet as well), I know who I chose because of the team that goes with it, and the balance it gives to the institutions and which one will allow for a return to democracy and which one will trigger a bloody civil war.
Visibly, your refusal to consider a different point of view, your incapacity to argue for your own leads you down a single possible path and Trump gave you the perfect excuses and means for it.
Your perception of history is totally skewed from your lens.
Please don't cross into breaking the site guidelines yourself, regardless of how wrong another commenter is or you feel they are. It only makes things worse.
People who at one point in the past related to the Democrat Party and the Left but no longer do through no particular changes of their own.
>Gosh, you have no idea how far I am from the left in France. And how far I am from the far-right too.
Indeed I have no idea how far you are from the Far Right: You are quite literally calling liberal values like equality "fascist". You are at least so far from the Far Right that ostensibly Center and Left values are Far Right for you.
You need to realize how absurd you are being.
>Visibly, your refusal to consider a different point of view, your incapacity to argue for your own leads you down a single possible path and Trump gave you the perfect excuses and means for it. Your perception of history is totally skewed from your lens.
You are projecting your own behavior upon me (and others). Get some help, my dude.
We've banned this account for repeatedly breaking the site guidelines and ignoring our requests to stop. Not cool.
If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
Just to clarify, when you said "this account" did you mean me or the person I was conversing with?
EDIT: Seeing as I can post a comment I'm going to guess you meant the latter, but I would appreciate clarification if you don't mind.
EDIT the second: It seems I am shadowbanned, so I'll leave an email I guess. It saddens me that an American entity (Hacker News) doesn't support American values, though.
I meant you. You broke the site guidelines badly and repeatedly, and we'd asked you more than once to stop doing this.
I did post a moderation reply to the person you were interacting with (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43042302), but they didn't break the guidelines nearly as badly as you did.
In no uncertain terms, the only guideline I've violated as far as I'm aware is the one stipulating no political battles. As far as that, I defer to your judgment with one contention: Everyone else who were and are also engaging in that behaviour should be similarly reprimanded.
As I've written in my email, I've noticed a significant uptick in political threads and subthreads over the past month for fairly obvious reasons. If you are that adamant about the guideline, and that is your right, I hope you police all such (sub)threads much more vigorously in the future.
In closing, I'm just sad at the true colors of this community. I take supporting racism personally as a Japanese-American, and all the other positions like supporting fraud, wanton waste, and selective enforcement of laws (aka social justice) are downright absurd. We will inevitably have differences in our beliefs, but I expected better from a community of hackers and entrepreneurs/investors who would presumably support liberal (libre) values and fiscal responsibility.
"you are clearly not worth the oxygen you consume" is obviously against the site guidelines. Ditto for "Please get help, you are indoctrinated and incapable of holding a useful conversation", "You are projecting your own behavior upon me (and others). Get some help, my dude", and so on.
USA-style Republican today? The thing is… if they were upholding the Constitution, right now, I could name one.
Frankly, all that emerges from the brouhaha coming from the USA sounds like The Onion headlines on steroids. Looks like the alternate reality movies from the Man in the High Castle. Unreal.
McCain could have saved something in the party back then, but the party chose otherwise…
And seeing how a conversation is not even possible anymore…
How does one rationalize electing these people? How does one get radicalized to that point? The very same playbook is run, again, and again. And it never resulted in peace and harmony through history. Never.
It thought you were going to explain how "woke" is a bad thing, and how Japanese were counter progressive stuff.
Instead, you give me two links to the current fascist White House propaganda - which makes me wonder if for you, woke is the exact opposite of "christian"?
And a link about a video game which is... related how to woke/progress or conservative/fascism?