What do you heretic mean?
I feel like a lot of us suddenly understand what it felt like not to expect the Spanish Inquisition.
Submitted 3 weeks ago by TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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Camille@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
starlinguk@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Fun fact: the Spanish Inquisition always made an appointment. Everyone expected the Spanish Inquisition…
Snowclone@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
A lot of us have been expecting it for decades. Remember when Trump was still a joke candidate on the primary and he was doing an interview and a ‘‘serious’’ reporter interviewed him and asked about his racist comments towards a sitting US Judge who was born and raised in the US, but he had a Spanish name! So Trump was calling him a ‘‘mexican’’ and the reporter told him to tone down the racism and say ‘‘Hispanic’’ instead. He, real time, softened trumps message, that was ENTIRELY RACIST, to sound arguably not racist if you squint and pretend.
Trump was never the problem, American style white supremacy has always been the problem. No, you aren’t free from racism because you call the people you are ethnicity clensing the correct term publicly.
haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 3 weeks ago
That and we’re living in a fascist system, in truth. It only has a democratic veneer in some countries and that is getting thinner and thinner.
The giant corporations we spend huge amounts of money for and a huge amount of people work for are extremely authoritarian.
Strong hierarchies, strong distinction into who is allowed and who is not, extreme selection by abilities, they can just “ask you you to leave” for no reason really. Etc.
Wikipedia:
Fascism (/ˈfæʃɪzəm/ FASH-iz-əm) is a far-right, authoritarian, and ultranationalist political ideology and movement.[1][2][3] It is characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the perceived interest of the nation or race, and strong regimentation of society and the economy.[2][3] Opposed to communism, democracy, liberalism, pluralism, and socialism,[4][5] fascism is at the far right of the traditional left–right spectrum.[6][5][7]