Jason Stanley with Senator Nikil Saval: Erasing History

[@lindarichmond1197]

Excellent. Thank you both.

[@billmitchell2080]

Democratic ideals and marxism are connected, recognizing this helps take control of the langauge back from the corporate fascists.

[@cpstr828]

The Holodomor narrative was first promoted during the post WWII era by far right Ukrainian exiles, though. These exiles were from Western Ukraine whereas the famine mostly affected the East. During the Holodomor Western Ukraine was under Polish rather than Soviet rule. They used the Holodomor as a Holocaust equivalent to cover up their own crimes, including involvement in the Holocaust. The Holodomor was a very real famine which did kill millions in for which the Soviet government does bare criminal responsibility. There is not really evidence, though, that it was a genocide aimed at eliminating Ukrainians. The victims were mostly Ukrainians, but also a sizeable proportion of non-Ukrainians in Southern Russia, Siberia, Central Asia, etc. It was the consequence of a combination of drought, the chaos brought about by earlier forced collectivization measures (also a major crime), and government unwillingness to appeal for foreign aid. The Soviet government was trying to sell the five year plan as a success story and this didn't fit the bill. Hence the cover-up. This was in contrast to the 1921 post civil war famine where the Soviet government did ask and did receive Western, mostly US, food aid. People died because they were "only" peasants. Being far from Moscow or Leningrad it was feasible to pull off a cover-up of the tragedy. In Ukraine, the famine would have affected people identifying as Ukrainian disproportionately, though. Peasants would have had a stronger Ukrainian identity when compared to urban populations who were more russified.

[@Barklord]

Q: How are capitalist crimes and crises justified and/or covered-up? A: Teachers use capitalist newspapers and textbooks.

[@AndyRosebrook]

Have you read Red Famine?

[@cpstr828]

@@AndyRosebrook No, I haven't. I have looked into reviews of this book. It might be informative in some respects but I don't trust the agenda of the author. She is an avid defender of the “Pax Americana that accompanied the rules-based world order”. Her posture on Gaza has been one of silence and denial of Israel's crimes. She clearly has no problem with bending the truth and blatant double standards.

[@noheroespublishing1907]

The United States still has a long way to go to get over the Right Wing Cold War Narratives.

[@jonathanedwardgibson]

No history of fascism is complete without it’s origins at City Of London.

[@tuckerbugeater]

ancient sumeria

[@aladdinbinschamar2442]

Yah stop erasing history and free Palestine!!

[@robertnewberry7799]

The Eras(e) Tour is the ongoing sixth concert tour by the American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift. It commenced on March 17, 2023, in Glendale, Arizona, and is set to conclude on December 8, 2024, in Vancouver, consisting of 149 shows that span five continents

[@dipanjandatta1689]

In India there is no supremacist nationalism. Indian people are not supporting BJP's religious fanaticism. That's why BJP has fared poorly in the current Loksabha election. Besides will the Westerners lecture us what kind of nationalism we Indians do need ? Can they give us back what they have looted from India and other colonies for centuries ? People whose forefathers had looted exploited the colonies by manifesting their aggressive nationalism, they lecture us about nationalism. Strange !!!

[@phuzzywuzzyabear]

Philosophers today know at least two things. 1. Bertrand Russell and Plato were both aristocrats. 2. Plato was the one with fascist ideas. And objectivity in morality compared to subjectivity is the weaker position. Its sophistry and scandalous. Sorry pal gay people cant make the rules for heterosexuals as that is how gays enter the world. We had a word for begrudged people like this guy when we were kids. Gaylord and it fits. This guy talks like a pissed off authority rather than an expert philosopher.

[@Barklord]

Every white supremacist classics professor "knows" St. Augustine, Synesius, Aristotle, Apuleius, and Plotinus were "white." 🙄😏🫥