• Akasazh@feddit.nl
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    1 year ago

    The symbolism is used for a slippery slope argument to the very horrors we see Russia committing today.

    That’s exactly what I say.

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      1 year ago

      The leadership of Ukraine is not Nazi or totalitarian. Russia under Purin and China under Xi Jinping is totalitarian.

      You make a fundamental category error.

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        1 year ago

        Noi don’t. I didn’t call the leadership of the Ukraine totalitarian, you are obviously misreading me.

        All in saying that it’s unhelpful to call either side Nazi.

        I’m up for calling the Russian regime all the other names (authoritarian, totalist). If you listen to Zelenski, he doesn’t call the Russians Nazis, why? Because you get stuck in historical rethoric.

        Just call them Russians. That should become the new bad guy word. Read back what I said, and you’ll see.