Get back to bloody Russia, where you belong? What was that about?
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varrdy — 11 years ago(September 04, 2014 07:06 PM)
I think it was a combination of ignorance, social-bias and straight-up burying heads in sand.
Social awareness wasn't as keen back then as it is now and so generally you accepted the status quo unless you were prepared to scratch the surface and do some reading. Sadly that wasn't really encouraged back then, either. When some people were confronted with someone with radically different opinions and ideas to their own, they could only ignore it or get angry.
Other people have said it but the sad truth is that anyone who talks sense and tells it like it is rather than sugar-coating everything in patriotic fervour generally tends to be written off as a lefty-Marxist type who wants us all to eat grass, which is rubbish but it's been ingrained in so many people it's hard to overcome.
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greg-233 — 11 years ago(September 05, 2014 04:30 PM)
"Other people have said it but the sad truth is that anyone who talks sense and tells it like it is rather than sugar-coating everything in patriotic fervour generally tends to be written off as a lefty-Marxist type who wants us all to eat grass, which is rubbish but it's been ingrained in so many people it's hard to overcome."
Yes. Nuclear war is less of a worry nowadays, but a parallel can be made with those who are concerned about climate change. The Heartland Institute, a leading climate change denial organization funded by Exxon, has hosted conferences where climate science is dimissed as a "hoax" or a "communist conspiracy". Scientists who call for a reduction in CO2 emissions are villified in the Right-wing press as "puppets of totalitarianism". One Right-wing commentator even compared climate science to "Lysenkoism":
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/planet-oz/2013/may/02/how-clima te-scientists-being-framed -
bluerisk — 10 years ago(July 04, 2015 03:35 PM)
Was she right about the effect of a nucear war: absolutely yes.
Was she right that this situation could be averted: absolutely no
We are talking about Russians.
Ich bin kein ausgeklügelt Buch, ich bin ein Mensch mit seinem Widerspruch.
Conrad Ferdinand Meyer