[FRIAM] The World Turned Upside Down (and what to do about it)

[Steven A Smith]

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 ☣ <gepropella at gmail.com 
> <mailto:gepropella at 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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