That mindset about “everyone deep down wanting what they think is best for the world” is a baby brained attitude you must grow out of.
At the very least, because it isn’t true. But more importantly, because it doesn’t matter.
I imagine lib girl doesn’t feel this way about the unarmed people the cops shoot in the street. Were they all bad people on the inside?
There’s no way to convince someone out of this, it’s literally a form of immaturity. They have to see evil directly in front of them to truly understand.
Yeah the whole “well Hitler was obviously evil” thing is fine in retrospect, but if we can only call something evil AFTER it’s already put people in gas chambers then it’s a bit too fucking late.
“Hitler is evil” is true but it’s also a way for white colonialists to wash their hands
Same as how Americans blame everything on “alabama” or “mississippi” when it’s really fundamental to white Americans in general.
If you just pile the blame on that one guy, you can paint yourself as acceptable
First we must study how colonization works to decivilize the colonizer, to brutalize him in the true sense of the word, to degrade him, to awaken him to buried instincts, to covetousness, violence, race hatred, and moral relativism; and we must show that each time a head is cut off or an eye put out in Vietnam and in France they accept the fact, each time a little girl is raped and in France they accept the fact, each time a Madagascan is tortured and in France they accept the fact, civilization acquires another dead weight, a universal regression takes place, a gangrene sets in, a center of infection begins to spread; and that at the end of all these treaties that have been violated, all these lies that have been propagated, all these punitive expeditions that have been tolerated, all these prisoners who have been tied up and “interrogated,” all these patriots who have been tortured, at the end of all the racial pride that has been encouraged, all the boastfulness that has been displayed, a poison has been distilled into the veins of Europe and, slowly but surely, the continent proceeds toward savagery.
And then one fine day the bourgeoisie is awakened by a terrific boomerang effect: the gestapos are busy, the prisons flll up, the torturers standing around the racks invent, refine, discuss.
People are surprised, they become indignant. They say: “How strange! But never mind-it’s Nazism, it will pass!” And they wait, and they hope; and they hide the truth from themselves, that it is barbarism, the supreme barbarism, the crowning barbarism that sums up all the daily barbarisms; that it is Nazism, yes, but that before they were its victims, they were its accomplices; that they tolerated that Nazism before it was inflicted on them, that they absolved it, shut their eyes to it, legitimized it, because, until then, it had been applied only to non-European peoples; that they have cultivated that Nazism, that they are responsible for it, and that before engulfing the whole edifice of Western, Christian civilization in its reddened waters, it oozes, seeps, and trickles from every crack.
Yes, it would be worthwhile to study clinically, in detail, the steps taken by Hitler and Hitlerism and to reveal to the very distinguished, very humanistic, very Christian bourgeois of the twentieth century that without his being aware of it, he has a Hitler inside him, that Hitler inhabits him, that Hitler is his demon, that if he rails against him, he is being inconsistent and that, at bottom, what he cannot forgive Hitler for is not the crime in itself, the crime against man, it is not the humiliation of man as such, it is the crime against the white man, the humiliation of the white man, and the fact that he applied to Europe colonialist procedures which until then had been reserved exclusively for the Arabs of Algeria, the “coolies” of India, and the “n*****s” of Africa.
At the end of capitalism, which is eager to outlive its day, there is Hitler. At the end of formal humanism and philosophic renunciation, there is Hitler.
-Aime Cesaire, Discourse on Colonialism
Isn’t it easy to reflect that back with “Do you think Hitler was doing what he felt was best?”
And then, since she either thinks all people do, or Hitler was at his core evil, you then explain that his intent doesn’t matter because he actually killed and imprisoned innocent people. McConnell does the same.
The ruling class must just fucking love that some significant portion of the population believes that violence is never justified. Was it always this way, or have us American’s just been brainwashed by years and years of civility nonsense and “turn the other cheek”?
No, it’s new, for sure.
Americans are much more domesticated than they used to be.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8gd3px/kill-the-banker-0000525-v21n12
According to her, people like the turtle are good people deep down and she’s absolutely certain that he is doing what he’s doing because he thinks it’s what’s best for society
I wonder how she feels about the Iraq war and kids getting killed via drone stikes…
That’s literally the propaganda: “We had to kill the kids because we were trying to kill the bad people! It’s what’s best for society that we kill the bad people, even if we kill kids accidentally sometimes”.
Lib brain just says the equivalent of, “two wrongs don’t make a right,” or “you can’t be judge, jury, and executioner,” etc.
Never tell people in your life you think your political enemies getting guillotined would be funny.
You don’t need to go shouting it, but if someone starts talking politics at you, never fucking own it. Some coworker is like “trump sucks”, say “yeah I know, but guillotining him would not be funny”. Your grandpa says “trump rules”, say “no he sucks ass, but guillotining him would not be funny”. You’re on a date and they ask who you’re voting for? Say “my political enemies getting guillotined would not be funny”. Cashier asks would you like change? “Yes, but my political enemies getting guillotined would not be funny”.
Cashier asks would you like change? “Yes but via the ballot box, no need to be violent about it.”
Forget about your lib girlfriend, we are all your girlfriend now.
We’ll split the difference. We’ll gruesomely murder tyrants, but then we’ll make movies about how badly it made us feel.
I didn’t hear it credited to him directly, but it was a common reference on /r/CTH
Having looked up this Boyle character, though, I feel like I could benefit from having his material in my life. Thank you.
Definitely check him out, he’s great, he has a show called New World Order, here’s the most recent episode, they talk about Epstein and Jean Baudrillard
