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Kaamapoori wrote:

Scandinavian countries?

I'm from Sweden and, while we have very little racism and such compared to America, for example, nationalism has seen a worryingly large rise in popularity. The nationalist party "Sverigedemokraterna" (the Sweden Democrats), that wasn't even in the parliament just a decade ago, are now the 3rd largest party, behind the moderates in second and Social Democrats in first, and were the largest during a period a few months ago.

They've also showed some fascist behavior recently, and I imagine they'll continue with that if they claim power. Luckily, no parties, not even the other right-wing parties, are willing to form a coalition with them, but some are actually starting to consider it.

Right now the only thing they care about is ending immigration, but if they take power it'll open the doors to even further right-wingers to maybe join the party and climb in the ranks until they eventually become prime minister.

As a man of color, this scares the sh*t out of me.

Kaamapoori wrote:

Whatever that's happening globally, is just so painful to watch.

I think it’s probably a direct result of The rise of Nationalism, which in turn is on the rise to counter Globalism.

Wouldn’t it be nice if we could all just get along as humans one day?

The anarchic collective of z wrote:

Just saw my name randomly generated on a NationStates issue and ngl now I’m kinda worried

Like just your first name or your entire name?

Volja wrote:

I'm a Canadian basement leftist, is that close enough? lol

I mean... in the ballpark I guess

Alphonsia wrote:

I'm from Sweden and, while we have very little racism and such compared to America, for example, nationalism has seen a worryingly large rise in popularity. The nationalist party "Sverigedemokraterna" (the Sweden Democrats), that wasn't even in the parliament just a decade ago, are now the 3rd largest party, behind the moderates in second and Social Democrats in first, and were the largest during a period a few months ago.

They've also showed some fascist behavior recently, and I imagine they'll continue with that if they claim power. Luckily, no parties, not even the other right-wing parties, are willing to form a coalition with them, but some are actually starting to consider it.

Right now the only thing they care about is ending immigration, but if they take power it'll open the doors to even further right-wingers to maybe join the party and climb in the ranks until they eventually become prime minister.

As a man of color, this scares the sh*t out of me.

Sometimes countries which are outwardly "not-racist" are the scariest of all. This gives racists an excuse to do racist things while maintaining a cover of "we're an equal society".

Vladista wrote:

Literally every country/race/culture struggles with projecting racist ideas. It’s human nature and not something that is limited to a race or culture.

I think racism is a learned behaviour.

Greater Vietnam wrote:

I think people tend to favor the other people who are more similar to themselves. So even without anyone teaching someone to be racist against other “races” of human, a large percentage of people would still favor their own “race” over people who belong to other “races”.

I think anti-racism is actually something which needs to be taught to an even larger degree than racism so that thought could triumph against racism. Otherwise without learning, it’s easier to end up with racism rather than anti-racism.

I agree with both, especially the latter, but I still do believe that even the former is a product of the process of socialisation, rather than something innate.

g'day

As Bolivian Regime Delays Elections a Third Time, Media Continue to Ignore Coup:
In the Bolivian elections last October 20, incumbent President Evo Morales of the Movement Toward Socialism party (MAS in Spanish) won a 10-point victory over his nearest challenger, as pre-election polls predicted. The next day, the Organization of American States issued a statement challenging the legitimacy of the elections, asserting a “hard-to-explain change in the trend of the preliminary results.” Immediately, right wingers violently took to the streets to protest the president. The OAS issued a followup statement confirming their analysis on November 10. The same day, the military forced Morales to step down.

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/08/06/bolivian-regime-delays-elections-third-time-media-continue-ignore-coup

Monitiopia wrote:

That's one of the examples that show why it is so hard to change something in the actual system. Sadly, I don't know if we, as humanity, are ever going to follow the path of socialism...

If we do, it must come from revolution.

Man with the red hat wrote:

As Bolivian Regime Delays Elections a Third Time, Media Continue to Ignore Coup:
In the Bolivian elections last October 20, incumbent President Evo Morales of the Movement Toward Socialism party (MAS in Spanish) won a 10-point victory over his nearest challenger, as pre-election polls predicted. The next day, the Organization of American States issued a statement challenging the legitimacy of the elections, asserting a “hard-to-explain change in the trend of the preliminary results.” Immediately, right wingers violently took to the streets to protest the president. The OAS issued a followup statement confirming their analysis on November 10. The same day, the military forced Morales to step down.

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/08/06/bolivian-regime-delays-elections-third-time-media-continue-ignore-coup

In Portugal, my home country, a far-right populist party has been formed and they are already in control of the courts and police. The leader of that party, André Ventura, speaks openly of abolishing the left-leaning constitution and creating an authoritarian dictatorship where LGBTQ+ people and minorities will be persecuted. Portugal was fascist until 1974 and they want to go back to it.

Just a few days ago a black citizen was shot in the street by a "chega" supporter, and the courts still have not indicted him.

Right now the two communist parties hold the balance of power, but a coup is already on the way with support from Europe :(

Sadly left-wingers in Portugal are so sedated that they don't even believe that this unconstitutional party should be banned, and they have allowed his supporters to take over the official Portugal region in nationstates...

My solidarity to the people of Bolivia, for i think very soon my own country will have the same fate :(

Amosainta wrote:

If we do, it must come from revolution.

Of course a revolution is what it should come from. It's just that from so much subtle propaganda nowadays, it seems so hard to convince people socialism is the right path and, therefore, start a revolution.