I'll admit, there have been multiple times recently I've started to wonder if he's somehow a pod person. And he's....certainly one to speak, as a national representative.

But as much as it irks me, I'd rather admit to common ground than find myself sacrificing my own morals on the basis that I don't like who said it.

Well sure, but also keep in mind that Erdogan loses his shit anytime someone even alludes to the fact that the Armenian Genocide was a real thing that actually happened.

This is not Erdogan being a good dude. This is Erdogan latching on to a thing because it’s politically useful for him to do so. Stopped clocks etc etc.

When satan looks at what you are doing and it is so bad even he has to denounce it…

I still consider this recent enough to count: Beating the absolute shit out of protestors outside of the embassy

The authoritarianism, nationalism, violence against the Kurds, corruption, and silencing of journalists isn't enough, or is not recent enough?

Also, why does everything have to be juxtaposed to Biden? Any reasonable person should be able to muster enough contempt in their heart to hate both.

TL;DR - they're still racist and prejuding individuals based on being in a "group" defined by some non-behavioural characteristic said individuals were born with, it's just that progressive racism now classifies as "good" or "victims" some groups that traditional racists used to deemed "bad" such as Black people or Jewish people.

They're still being prejudiced, and did nothing more than adjusting the presumptions attached to some race-defined groups.

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Modern Liberalism in the moral sphere is not anchored on Principle but instead it's a different labelling of "good" and "bad" on top of the of putting people in groups, same as the Fascists just with different "good" and "bad" groups.

People are still being classified into "groups" by how they look, their gender, their sexual orientation, their religion and were they come from, and then assumptions about individual behaviour are being done based on those "classifications", all of which is how racists think complete with prejudiced expectations that individuals are "good" or "bad" depending on the "classification" they've are deemed to be in based on things they were born with: the classifying and presuming never stopped, it's just that some groups previously presumed "bad" are now presumed "good".

Or to put things another way - it's a rebranding of racism with adjusted "good" and "bad" classifications, not a change to a following of the principle that people should be judged by what they do, not based on non-behavioural characteristics they were born with and presuming that massive groups of individuals are all the same because of sharing one such characteristic.

Hence how you end up with things like it being deemed anti-semitism to criticise the racist genocidal actions of a government because they happen to fall into a classification now deemed "good" even though their actual actions are pretty much hard-core German-style Fascism, the very opposite of good.

By the way, this is not just a phenomenon in Germany, but I expected a lot more from the majority of Germans (or at least from the power elites in that country) and instead it now seems even the country that did the Holocaust kept the racism and just did a rebranding.

PS: This is also how you end up with funny things like for example, journalists who think of themselves as impeccably progressive writting opinion articles critical of "men who use sex dolls" (I kid you not) without noticing the clear parallels with articles written in the past by other people which were critical of homosexual acts - people whose thinking is anchored on principles see both kinds of articles as "criticising adults for sexual practices that harm nobody" hence an equally unacceptable criticism, but those who are prejudiced whilst using a modern list of "good" groups, think the homophobic articles are bad (because it's not fashionable to be homophobic) but critizing other sexual practices not commonly deemed acceptable is just fine.

I’ll give Erdy credit for being a broken clock, that’s about it. If he actually cared about self determination he wouldn’t treat Kurds like shit. He gets real mad when you call the PKK freedom fighters but is perfectly happy saying as much about Hamas