Richard Hofstadter's "The Paranoid Style of American Politics" 

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He mentions that. I also watched a lecture, "Holocaust in Ukraine" and the historian mentions that hitler used the wave of Ukrainian Jews, fleeing the attacks in Ukraine, to start his attacks on Jewish people. It's important to note that the author, and American Jew, focus his work on the phenomenon of anti-semitism in Ukraine and its historic and circumstancial origins - and they were not what I imagined! He makes large use of Oral History and the lecture I watched is amazingly beautiful!

That's impossible! That has never happened in history! (just a joke to lighten things up)

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... are you new here? This podcast is supposed to explain philosophical text. While David sometimes gives his own insights as well, the primary purpose of this podcast is to share ideas and not to derive an absolute conclusion from them.

I define it as having never traveled and have no survival mode or awareness. So most of the engagement in life is limited. You are what you think about most. Curiosity stops at the border. Where as the world in general seems to have a better grasp of the American mind in addition to a macro view of the world and the multiple symbiotic relationships. The mind of an American in general is the product of marketing/propaganda. Well crafted and decades in the making. More self examination, more silly questions asked and verification for the win. Most people will not do the work. But that is why who you listen to is a success principle. For the macro view the world is full of half truths. I say don’t believe a word I have written, just verify for yourself. Tangible understanding is found in personal libraries, I have yet to see on RU-vid.

I strongly agree as a Native American born and raised in the Pueblo of Zuni and spent most of my life there. I now live off the reservation and I've come across the term White Savior. Some strange encounters were from narcissistic White people that misinterpret Buddhism to believe they're the only God or strongly opinionated, and sometimes knowledge, that only their opinion matters. Typically, I just ignore them when they start telling me they know more than I do about Zuni religion and only having broad generalisations. There messages have included; I know I can use you as the face of my leadership to turn Zuni into the next Silicon Valley, God is from the colonizer's religion and Buddhism tells me that I'm God and can heal you from your mental illness, I know more than you about everything because I have more expensive stuff than you and I'll be your spiritual guide. All of them providing proof they're not White by saying; I'm not white because I'm 1/8 Irish, I'm not White because I'm 1/8 Welsh, I'm not White because I'm 1/8 Scottish. Each of them saying something like this; I'm Kevin Costner's character in Dances with Wolves, I love Walt Disney's Pocahontas, I love you guys and here's a piece of a Hallmark card with some generic Indians with dream catchers on it that you can have. The funniest experience I've had was with a girl that just saw the first Avatar in theatres and noticed my long hair and red skin and asked, "Have you ever braid bonded?"

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