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

[Roger Critchlow]

The lies that bind political coalitions together, the art of the possible
fiction which might be brought to horrible life, ...

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On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 12:41 PM, gⅼеɳ ☣ <gepropella at gmail.com> wrote:

> But did the Mexican Repatriation also include things like rape, burning
> villages, and indiscriminant execution?  I can imagine it did, but would
> rather not believe it.
>
> It's still so jarring to me, given the cultural appropriation of Buddhism
> in Western developed countries, to hear phrases like "nationalist
> Buddhists" and such.  With Israel, I grew up with the contradiction of the
> Jews I knew, who were entirely kind and intellectual, versus those
> confiscating land from Arabs.  So, I've been exposed to that dissonance all
> my life.  But my only exposure to Buddhism as a kid was through my CCD
> teacher, who probably had a *very* stilted understanding.
>
> On 09/14/2017 06:31 PM, Steven A Smith wrote:
> > 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".
>
> --
> ☣ gⅼеɳ
>
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