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To: ifinnegan

To explain that, there needs to be some familiarity with the western vs. Asian philosophies, though it is not particularly hard. For example, in the West, the individual is seen as the most important part of society; but in Asia, they rank much lower.

In Asia, a family, then its town and their place in society matter much more. Their extended family comes next. At some point the individual has some value, but only relative to the system in which they belong.

For example, if a fisherman offended a powerful nobleman in the past, the punishment might be to destroy that village and all who lived within, including the fisherman. It wouldn’t particularly matter if the identity of the fisherman was known, or even if he was offered up for punishment.

Only on the surface does this seem like the Lidice massacre and destruction of the town by the Nazis, after some unknown partisans assassinated high ranking Nazi Reinhard Heydrich. Had its citizens offered up the responsible partisans, it is likely that only they would have been murdered.

But the motivation behind it all in the former case is the Asian “way”; but in the latter case, while it can properly be called “fascist”, it was not rule of thumb fascism, but unusual circumstances.

When you look at all the Slavic villages destroyed and their people butchered, solely for being Slavs, that is clearly fascist; but it would typically not be something that Asians would do.

They would much prefer gradualism, such as how the Chinese are trying to demographically dominate the Tibetans or Uighurs. Eventually they will be marginalized into destruction, but there is no ambition to slaughter them outright, though they live under brutal dictatorship.


39 posted on 10/25/2017 6:13:02 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (Hitlers Mein Kampf, translated into Arabic, is "My Jihad")
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy
你去哪個大學
40 posted on 10/25/2017 7:18:24 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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