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Francis Fukuyama – Against Identity Politics

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Post by babayega2 »

SkyMarshal wrote: post #93
988747 wrote: post #19

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> In comparison to the scale of ideological, political, economic, and social changes for the 19th and 20th centuries, essentially nothing has happened since 1992. No major nation has had a revolution. There have been no major wars between nation-states. No ideologies of note have arisen or been cast down. Nothing historical has happened -- so the end of history. The period since 1992 was relatively peaceful, that's r…

> Since then we had "war on terrorism" and PATRIOT act, big financial crisis of 2008, rise of social media and surveillance state, and now COVID pandemic. Don't forget rising authoritarianism again, which was one of the characteristics of Fukuyama's notion of the end of history, the fall of totalitarianism with the USSR.

Eric Li, from China has a big take on that: the West thinkers, including Fukuyama, stopped thinking since they assumed history was written. No more authoritarian state would outperform a liberal one. Apparently history is still being written.

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Post by zapita »

roenxi wrote: post #130
zapita wrote: post #124

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> 1) There are reasons other than white nationalism for political parties to play politics with voting laws. I referred to a very specific piece of legislation for a reason. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is, to quote Wikipedia, “a landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting ”. It is the direct result of Martin Luther King Jr marching against Jim Crow laws…

> But you tell me. Assuming you vote for Republicans: what do you believe they stand for beyond white nationalism? And how do you reconcile your support with their efforts to undo legislation that Martin Luther King Jr fought for? I'm not American and there is even a fair chance I wouldn't vote for the Republicans if I were, I'd likely be trying to split the right wing vote for the libertarian party to force the Repu…

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Re: Francis Fukuyama – Against Identity Politics

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Post by rvense »

mollerhoj wrote: post #128
rvense wrote: post #59

His point at the end about the impossibility of the word "un-Danish" is at least thirty years out of date, if not 80. "Udansk" is fairly frequently used, across the political spectrum, usually denoting some variation of intolerance, unwillingness to compromise, and narrowmindedness which are implied almost universally to be antithetical to Danishness. Even on the right, the phrases "Danish culture" and "Danish values…

Yeah, saying "Udansk" is all too common. Though is strikes me as a word almost exclusively used by politicans - maybe a tactic that some spindoctor picked up from US media at some point?

DDO actually has some very old examples:

https://ordnet.dk/ods/ordbog?query=udansk

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