Comment by duxup
5 months ago
It would seem that Berkeley didn't come up with these names on their own, they were a part of complaints that the government demanded info on?
5 months ago
It would seem that Berkeley didn't come up with these names on their own, they were a part of complaints that the government demanded info on?
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> doesn't this smell like fascism?
Not really. Religion and race are protected classes. The analogue would be a police force in the South refusing to provide names of officers with a track record of racial discrimination complaints.
Whether this is authoritarian depends on what comes next.
>Not really. Religion and race are protected classes.
Which conveniently, isn't what the Supreme Court seems to actually believe given that they signed off on racial discrimination being A-OK as long as it's by the feds. So I think it's more than fair to say that this is authoritarian before we even see what comes next given that the feds and the Supreme Court are moving in lockstep.
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Sort of OT, but.
Orwell would say, that depends:
https://www.orwell.ru/library/articles/As_I_Please/english/e...
(He also gave names of leftists to government when they asked)
Eco’s take is perhaps more useful as a guide to identify.
https://www.openculture.com/2024/11/umberto-ecos-list-of-the...
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I think it does matter how this came about.