It’s not symbolic and it’s not impotent. It’s psychological terrorism and it’s highly effective. It has even conservatives out here sobbing and taking a knee for George Floyd, including Trump.
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Did taking down statues of Southern generals, etc. was "psychological terrorism "(pardon the redundancy)? because that's what I was referring to specifically. Not to say the destruction of symbols is insignificant, but on the context surrounding Floyd 2020 protests I see their effect was largely to "inspire" the protesting contingents across platforms, and as a rally point for conservatives to showcase the looters out of control. Just to put a pin on it, I find it hard to care too much about glorying the rulling class of the losing side who brought the country into civil war, but I can still read about them or be interested enough to learn about their lives without felling the need to hate or love them.
For some reason unbeknownst to me, the human mind seems to only sustain too much deviation from the opinions of “the tribe”. These iconoclasms send a clear and direct message to anybody not with the program. I don’t why but most people cant take the knee their employer forces them to while simultaneously mentally acknowledging that all evidence points to Floyd suffering from a drug overdose.
I can dig that alongside the fact he was a recurring petty criminal, and yet I still believe he didn't deserve or warrant three cops ganging on him with one against his neck. To quote Trump: "There was fault in both sides."
In Ukraine we see the same effect. The attacks on the Russian language, culture, and the people of the Donbas doesn’t push people like Vince McMahon away towards Russia like you would logically think it would, instead most of them all got with the program and joined in with the attacks on their own people. Even Zelensky’s movies were banned for being too Russian when he ran for President.
I don't know much about KF Vince McMahon, whether he is Russian, Ukrainian, or if he takes it up the ass on Sundays, but I assume you mean Ukraine efforts to de-Russia itself pre-war.
There is two ways to look at this: just because cultural elements of a group individual get suppressed, doesn't mean the individuals should chimp out and run towards the motherland ride-or-die. There is a reason why the Americans who spout the glory of mother Africa and denounce the lack of African representation in pop culture, don't usally fly to a place they know is worse than the one they currently live in.
Secondly, If people like VM (who IDK) went all pro-Russia there would still be a contingent of people who would call him a sheep for following Putin's commands, so as far as I'm concerned he is dammed if he do/ dammed if he doesn't.
If you are based you examine the situation an make an informed opinion, or not, based on the best rational explanation even if it doesn't align with any tribe. The situation is that with a war raging on most people on the ground won't see past the difficulties they and their love ones are facing, which is understandable. For the rest of us barely literate Westoids, the immediacy of the conflict is not present so we, I believe, should avoid going full retard for either side unless it involves us. But this is a site to follow funny retards, so that's thankfully out of the window here.