Trump Strategic and Policy Forum, Which Included IBM and GM CEOs, Disbands

Re:Trump Strategic and Policy Forum, Which Included IBM and ... by gremlinsinc on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @03:00PM (#15030154)

By putting people in 'groups' and having those who support him also enforce this idea that we're all in separate groups and need to look out for own little group--this is how fascism grows, this is how hitler took over Germany, this is how a new Hitler figure could take over America too... It's not outside the realm of possibility sure Germans in 1900 couldn't forsee the horrors of 1940.

Here's a good video from 1947 explaining the whole thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23X14HS4gLk

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Re:Trump Strategic and Policy Forum, Which Included IBM and ... by scierama on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @03:21PM (#15030349)

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/06/04/thernstrom.identity.p...

Then, I guess Trump learned from the best.

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Re:Trump Strategic and Policy Forum, Which Included IBM and ... by gertef on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @03:40PM (#15030537)

Pushing a diverse melting pot isn't the same as forcing for white supremacy.

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Re:Trump Strategic and Policy Forum, Which Included IBM and ... by scierama on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @05:24PM (#15031502)

1. America is the melting pot of the world, no pushing is required. Hiring based on ability; regardless of color, religion, etc., is required.

2. Trump is pushing against white supremacy:

http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/14/politics/trump-condemns-charlo...

"Trump calls KKK, neo-Nazis, white supremacists 'repugnant'"

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Re:Trump Strategic and Policy Forum, Which Included IBM and ... by krautsourced on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @03:10PM (#15030241)

Wait - aren't you exactly describing identity politics?

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Re:Trump Strategic and Policy Forum, Which Included IBM and ... by r00fus on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @03:20PM (#15030336)

Sure, as long as you define identity political groups to allow things like subjugating and terrorizing other groups, sure.

Treating violent white nationalists like just another "political identity" is disingenuous. Like saying ISIS members are "just Muslims".

We treat identity groups with violent tendencies as terrorists (but only prosecute if their skin is brown)

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Re:Trump Strategic and Policy Forum, Which Included IBM and ... by Analemma_ on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @03:17PM (#15030308)

Prepare to have your mind blown: it's possible to both dislike contemporary leftist idpol and still think Nazis are indisputably much worse.

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Re:Trump Strategic and Policy Forum, Which Included IBM and ... by krautsourced on Thursday August 17, 2017 @02:30AM (#15034241)

I know. I just found it amusing to read it like that. And even though using the term "both sides" has now become tricky, I think indeed left and right have done their fair share to make it come to the situation we are in, with constant hyperbole and hysteria and grandstanding in the media, rather than discussing issues (which probably still happens, one would hope, but it does not make it to the front pages any more).

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Re:Trump Strategic and Policy Forum, Which Included IBM and ... by michaelsbradley on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @04:31PM (#15031119)

There was an interesting TrumpCast episode (from June 2016) during which the host interviewed a historian of European Fascism:

http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/trumpcast/2016/06/tru...

I'd be curious whether the historian would offer the same analysis today.

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