However, how can ordinary people see through the charm of the devil and distinguish it from the angels?
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Anyone familiar with medicine will know that cancer is the product of the activation of proto-oncogenes, which are inherent in every normal cell. It is not realistic to eliminate the proto-oncogene. Only by suppressing its activation process through various means is the correct way to deal with cancer.
As Hitler said in the film: "You can't get rid of me, I am a part of you, from all of you." The extreme populist ideas represented by Hitler are like proto-oncogenes lurking in everyone's heart. It is also unrealistic to want to eliminate this kind of thinking. Only by maintaining social justice as much as possible and eliminating the soil on which this kind of thinking survives to the greatest extent possible can we avoid the rooting and sprouting of extreme populism and the return of Hitler.
However, the pursuit of fairness, even in contemporary society, is inevitably reduced to a mirror image. In the course of human history, more often than not, there is a needless cycle of overcorrection.
Affirmative Action and Reverse Discrimination
The affirmative action has a long history in the United States. Its essence is to provide women, ethnic minorities and other disadvantaged groups with a series of preferential and preferential policies in terms of employment and further education, such as adding test points and setting a minimum admission ratio. It has played a positive role in promoting the diversified development of society.
However, as the movement continues to advance, another negative effect that cannot be ignored has gradually emerged. The original intention of the affirmative action movement is to pursue social justice, but it often creates injustice in actual situations. For example, in college entrance exams, although white students scored higher than black students, black students ended up being admitted. Such cases are summarized as: reverse discrimination.
It can be seen that the affirmative action movement is suspected of overcorrecting. It sacrifices the interests of some social individuals in exchange for making up for the so-called historical faults. However, the damage suffered by vulnerable groups in history cannot be measured by quantitative preferential policies; and individuals whose interests have been damaged are not necessarily the beneficiaries of historical problems. This one-size-fits-all approach, regardless of the actual situation, has far more negative effects on social justice than its positive effects.
As reverse discrimination continues to intensify, American society is gradually beginning to re-examine the issue of equal rights. A growing number of lawsuits against reverse discrimination have been filed, and some states have passed statutes repealing affirmative action. But there is also the shadow of extreme populism in the voice against reverse discrimination. How to correctly guide this dangerous tendency and avoid another overcorrection has become one of the difficult problems faced by American society.
Lessons from the Soviet Union
If the pursuit of fairness in American society is still struggling to avoid overcorrection, then the Soviet Union's national policy provides us with a case of complete failure.
Before the establishment of the Soviet Union, the Tsarist Russian government, from the standpoint of extreme Russian nationalism, adopted a coercive policy against all ethnic minorities in the territory, prohibited them from using their own national languages, and forced them to renounce their inherent national religious beliefs and implemented national assimilation by coercive means.
After the establishment of the Soviet Union, in order to repay the historical "debt" owed by the Russian government to ethnic minorities, the Soviet government adopted a similar approach to the affirmative action in the United States, and provided preferential policies and preferential policies to ethnic minorities from all aspects.
However, unlike the United States, which only gave quantitative preferences under the existing system, Soviet policy largely fragmented society and created a minority above the majority Russian ethnic group. National privileged class. This class enjoys various privileges that are not enjoyed by the main ethnic groups in all aspects of social life, such as regional autonomy, religious belief, birth policy, education and employment, financial subsidies, etc., which also fundamentally shakes the foundation of social justice in the Soviet Union.
The Soviet Union's erroneous national policy had a twofold result. On the one hand, this overcorrected and deformed practice has caused serious harm to the main Russian nation, which is the cornerstone of the Soviet society; on the other hand, the extreme injustice of the society has awakened the potential extreme populist tendencies in the hearts of the Russians, and provided a breeding ground for it. soil for development. Today, Russia has become the region with the most extreme populism, and the "Skinheads", an extreme populist organization that idolizes Hitler, has long been famous.
As Yeltsin said: "The Soviet Union disintegrated, Russia can move forward." The end of the Soviet Union's wrong national policy broke the invisible shackles imposed on the Russian nation. But the threat of a rise in extreme populism brought about by chronic social injustice remains and may be far underestimated. The failures and lessons of the Soviet Union deserve serious reflection.
The hidden worries of contemporary society
In the contemporary world, the current situation of diversity among different ethnic groups, cultures and beliefs cannot be ignored. Under the macro-action of mutual integration, the inevitable conflicts between the above different groups have become more and more intense. The European refugee issue presented in the form of a documentary at the end of the film, as well as the rebound tendency of the main social group, is the silhouette of this situation.
However, in the face of the above problems, contemporary society does not seem to have learned lessons from history. Cases of overcorrection are staged every day in Germany, Europe, and even the world. This unfair response to unfairness is tantamount to drinking poison to quench thirst. Create a backlash against extreme populism and intensify a new round of injustice. In the film, the process of the German people's ridicule, suspicion and then gradual acceptance of Hitler is not only a demonstration of historical reincarnation, but also a prediction of future worries.
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On March 1, 2016, during a presidential campaign event at Radford University in Virginia, Republican candidate and future U.S. President Donald Trump's speech was repeatedly interrupted by a group of protesters chanting "Black Lives Matter."
To this, Trump responded: "Listen, you may only hear it once."
"All Lives Matter"
applauded.
The pursuit of fairness is the eternal ideal of human society.
Pursuing fairness by creating injustice is a serious mistake that human beings have made many times in history and reality.
If this error is not corrected, then human society will repeat the cycle of history forever, and Hitler will still come back.
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