Republican lawmakers had voted to silence a Democratic member of the so-called Tennessee Three during a House floor session after determining the young Black member violated newly enacted rules designed to punish disruptive members.
During the 1940s, and particularly during WWII, the US was extremely discriminatory (to the point of outright murderous) to black people and rounded up anyone of Japanese descent and put them in camps (often while white people took over their old areas they’d carved out for themselves). They were awful to gays as well.
But you know what the US didn’t do? Murder millions of their own citizens in an organized genocide, stripping them of their humanity before killing them en masse in gas chambers.
But nobody (sane) “two-sides” WWII. The US wasn’t good, but it was definitely on the right side of that fight, and the fascists needed to be stopped. If we waited for some “good” country to stop the Axis, because we didn’t want to support the US, the fascists would have won.
The saying goes “the perfect is the enemy of the good,” but sometimes the Good is the enemy of stopping goddamn fascists.
The way you phrased the last sentence makes it seem like you think the phrase “perfect is the enemy of good” means that perfect is better than good, which while true isn’t the point of that phrase.
I’m assuming you wrote it that way for dramatic effect, but I wrote this comment for today’s 10,000
P.S. can someone calculate what that number would be for the global population, as the 10,000 is for the US
The phrasing was intentional, and symmetrical. The point of the phrase is if you are holding out for the perfect, you’ll fail to even get the good. And if you are holding out for a “good” politician (e.g. refusing to vote because your particular chosen politician isn’t in the race), you’ll fail to keep fascists away from power.
During the 1940s, and particularly during WWII, the US was extremely discriminatory (to the point of outright murderous) to black people and rounded up anyone of Japanese descent and put them in camps (often while white people took over their old areas they’d carved out for themselves). They were awful to gays as well.
But you know what the US didn’t do? Murder millions of their own citizens in an organized genocide, stripping them of their humanity before killing them en masse in gas chambers.
But nobody (sane) “two-sides” WWII. The US wasn’t good, but it was definitely on the right side of that fight, and the fascists needed to be stopped. If we waited for some “good” country to stop the Axis, because we didn’t want to support the US, the fascists would have won.
The saying goes “the perfect is the enemy of the good,” but sometimes the Good is the enemy of stopping goddamn fascists.
The way you phrased the last sentence makes it seem like you think the phrase “perfect is the enemy of good” means that perfect is better than good, which while true isn’t the point of that phrase.
I’m assuming you wrote it that way for dramatic effect, but I wrote this comment for today’s 10,000
P.S. can someone calculate what that number would be for the global population, as the 10,000 is for the US
The phrasing was intentional, and symmetrical. The point of the phrase is if you are holding out for the perfect, you’ll fail to even get the good. And if you are holding out for a “good” politician (e.g. refusing to vote because your particular chosen politician isn’t in the race), you’ll fail to keep fascists away from power.