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The American Soviet Mentality
Tablet Magazine ^ | June 16, 2020 | Izabella Tabarovsky

Posted on 06/16/2020 10:05:25 AM PDT by JOHN ADAMS

From my vantage point, this cultural moment in these United States feels incredibly precarious. The practice of collective condemnation feels like an assertion of a culture that ultimately tramples on the individual and creates an oppressive society. Whether that society looks like Soviet Russia, or Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, or Castro’s Cuba, or today’s China, or something uniquely 21st-century American, the failure of institutions and individuals to stand up to mob rule is no longer an option we can afford.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: cancelculture; left; leftists; stalinism
Interesting piece written by an emigre from the Soviet Union, seeing and commenting on what everyone on FreeRepublic has been seeing in the US for a long time.
1 posted on 06/16/2020 10:05:25 AM PDT by JOHN ADAMS
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I don’t even know what the Communist strategy is. They are using BLM as their shock troops, trying to burn down our cities. What does that get them? How do they intend to win the Fall elections?

They are like two-year-olds having a tantrum.


2 posted on 06/16/2020 10:24:30 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: JOHN ADAMS

This is the tolerant left at work.


3 posted on 06/16/2020 11:09:50 AM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

White Leftist will never learn. They instigate this mayhem by manipulating blacks into feeling ‘’oppressed’’ and turn them loose only to have the monster turn on them. Now in the age of Instagram , social media and full throated ‘’victimhood’’ they’ve completely lost control of their creation.


4 posted on 06/16/2020 11:22:52 AM PDT by jmacusa (If we're all equal how is diversity our strength?)
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To: ClearCase_guy
What does that get them? How do they intend to win the Fall elections?

By stealing them through vote fraud.

5 posted on 06/16/2020 11:24:22 AM PDT by bassmaner (Hey commies: I'm a white male, and guilty of NOTHING! Sell your 'white guilt' elsewhere.ietthatal)
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To: ClearCase_guy
'How do they intend to win the Fall elections?'

They're playing the long game, with a view to an age when elections are a thing of the non-existent past.

6 posted on 06/16/2020 11:27:57 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

I don’t think they even have a plan besides lashing out at anything and everything traditional and conservative.


7 posted on 06/16/2020 1:04:17 PM PDT by FormerFRLurker (Keep calm and vote your conscience.)
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“I don’t think they even have a plan besides lashing out at anything and everything traditional and conservative.’

BLM is a Marxist organization, with a definite plan. Their original webpage, archived:

https://web.archive.org/web/20190502120213/https:/policy.m4bl.org/about/


8 posted on 06/16/2020 5:30:02 PM PDT by Basket_of_Deplorables (This is all a communist plan)
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