{"id":474,"date":"2020-08-09T03:52:45","date_gmt":"2020-08-09T03:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breaking-the-silence.online\/index.php\/2020\/08\/09\/it-remains-taboo-in-the-mainstream-to-label-donald-trump-a-fascist\/"},"modified":"2024-09-14T06:25:06","modified_gmt":"2024-09-14T06:25:06","slug":"it-remains-taboo-in-the-mainstream-to-label-donald-trump-a-fascist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amaliafoka.com\/breaking-the-silence\/index.php\/2020\/08\/09\/it-remains-taboo-in-the-mainstream-to-label-donald-trump-a-fascist\/","title":{"rendered":"It remains taboo in the mainstream to label Donald Trump a fascist"},"content":{"rendered":"
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If Sanders beats them, the taboo<\/strong><\/span><\/strong> will be broken.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Complicating <\/span>matters: What was socially acceptable even 48 hours ago may now be taboo<\/strong><\/span><\/strong>, as government<\/strong> officials race to contain the virus<\/strong> with ever-expanding circles of social isolation.<\/p>\n

What explains the current taboo<\/strong><\/span><\/strong> on topics regarding the coronavirus?
\nSimilarly taboo<\/strong><\/span><\/strong> was questioning the notion that everyone who died with COVID-19 died because of it, even when the dying and the deceased were not tested for the virus<\/strong> and the methodology of ascertaining causes of death seemed too often reinvented or changed weekly.<\/p>\n

More Taboo Questions<\/p>\n

One reason it remains taboo<\/strong><\/span><\/strong> in the mainstream<\/strong> to label Donald Trump<\/a> a fascist is that Trump is uniquely American.<\/p>\n

\"\"The IMF, which once considered capital controls<\/strong> taboo<\/strong><\/span><\/strong>, now sees them as potentially useful stabilizers when markets seesaw.<\/p>\n

President Donald Trump<\/a> has accelerated the collapse<\/strong> of taboos<\/span><\/strong> on all issues including Israel’s standing and relations<\/strong> within the U.S. political landscape<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Cold War allowed Israel to play an essential role in U.S. foreign policy, but the diligent and systematic organizing work<\/strong> of AIPAC and American Zionist organizations translated the alliance<\/strong> of convenience into an untouchable taboo<\/strong><\/span><\/strong> in American politics and media discourses.<\/p>\n

The push to commit U.S. troops directly in the Arab world and the move toward military operations in the region is directly connected to the collapse<\/strong> of the political taboos<\/span><\/strong> related to Israel and Zionism.
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The consequences of direct U.S. military intervention and troop deployment into the battlefields in Iraq<\/a> was the beginning of the cracks in public discourses around Israel and Zionist taboo<\/strong><\/span><\/strong> in politics.<\/p>\n

As long as the debates in the U.S. were confined to AIPAC’s efforts to cement the alliance<\/strong> with Israel, increase foreign aid, provide protection for Israel against international consequences and isolate the Palestinians regionally and globally, then the taboo<\/strong><\/span><\/strong> and limits in public discourse were maintained.<\/p>\n

However, once the U.S. committed troops and became involved militarily, then all bets were off, whereby discussions and debates regarding Israel and the political taboos<\/span><\/strong> on its role in U.S. foreign and domestic policies were no longer sustainable.<\/p>\n

Initially, it was on the margins of America’s political landscape<\/strong>, but as the military deployment dragged-on and the complexity of the conflicts became apparent, Israel and its lobby were no longer in a position to maintain the political taboos<\/span><\/strong>, which included a split within the ranks of the American Jewish community itself.<\/p>\n

The current realignment in the Democratic Party is a definite indication of the shattering of the political taboos<\/span><\/strong> in relation to Israel and Zionism underway in the country.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This process started much earlier than the arrival of the 2018 midterm elections and the newly elected class of Democrats, which includes a number that was not only ready to take Israel to task on human rights violations but also to speak on the untouchable taboo<\/strong><\/span><\/strong>, namely the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement.<\/p>\n

The fact that democratic members in Congress are ready to push back against AIPAC and Israel is evidence of the breaking<\/strong> of the taboo<\/strong><\/span><\/strong> and a readiness to shift the conversation.<\/p>\n

Trump’s arrival on the political scene and his readiness to break all political, social, racial, gender and cultural taboos<\/span><\/strong> is another critical contributing factor to the shift.<\/p>\n

Anna Ginsburg: animation is great for tackling taboo<\/strong><\/span><\/strong> subjects<\/p>\n

The London-based filmmaker spoke about her passion for animated documentaries, a \u00bbpowerful, up-and-coming genre\u00ab that uses illustration to tell true stories and explore difficult topics that people may find hard to discuss on camera.\u00bbSadly, we are all quite judgemental,\u00ab she said. \u00bbA drawing acts as a protective layer, so it\u2019s easier to empathise. \u00bb \u00abHer short, animated film Private Parts came out of a realisation that female sexuality and pleasure were still considered taboo<\/strong><\/span><\/strong> and \u00bbpervaded with shame\u00ab, and \u00bbimages of vaginas were primarily only seen in pornography or medical textbooks. \u00bb<\/p>\n

The historical deja vu may actually lie elsewhere \u2013 not in the so-called extremists or populists but inside the mainstream<\/strong>. \u00bb Just like the 1930s, liberal elites may have overestimated the strength and social acceptance of liberal values. \u00bb They may have been complacent about the ubiquity of civil self-restraint, empathy towards others and inter-dependence. \u00bb Fascists or not, the current brand of illiberal populists and their growing supporters feast from the deep contradictions still present in mainstream<\/strong> society and the arrogant complacency of liberal elites. \u00bb In doing that, they also break one taboo<\/strong><\/span><\/strong> after another and open up a host of previously unthinkable or implausible possibilities for radical action in the near future. \u00bb<\/p>\n

Democratic presidential hopefuls are embracing a political tool long considered taboo<\/strong><\/span><\/strong>: setting litmus tests for potential judicial nominees. \u00bb<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

JERUSALEM \u2014 A Palestinian businessman who flouts political taboos<\/span><\/strong> by working with Israeli settlers in the West Bank<\/a> could soon have a role in President Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s Middle East peace plan. \u00bb<\/p>\n

The move was met with intense criticism and was perceived as an attempt to exploit the emperor for political purposes \u2014 a taboo<\/strong><\/span><\/strong> in Japan<\/a> given its wartime history. \u00bb<\/p>\n

In Germany<\/a>, the prohibition on Holocaust jokes is policed by law<\/strong> and informally maintained by social taboo<\/strong><\/span><\/strong>\u2014both the wages of the Third Reich\u2019s sins. \u00bb Those controls<\/strong> can sound draconian and provocative to the American ear, trained to despise the \u00bbthought police<\/strong>\u00ab and to revere the freedom of expression. \u00bb But this minor episode from the world of 1980s German media might have new relevance in America today, where taboos<\/span><\/strong> both rhetorical and actual are falling as fast as Donald Trump<\/a> can invoke them. \u00bb<\/p>\n

Murder, rape<\/strong>, concentration<\/strong> camps<\/strong>, child abuse\u2014all these taboos<\/span><\/strong> have lost some of their peremptory power in the past month alone. \u00bb The president was publicly and credibly accused of rape<\/strong> last week, and yet he easily dismissed his accuser as a liar. \u00bb Also last week, Trump dismissed the murder of Jamal Khashoggi<\/a> as essentially less important than Saudi Arabia<\/a>\u2019s money . \u00bb On June 18, Liz Cheney<\/a> defined a \u00bbconcentration<\/strong> camp\u00ab as a place that can only exist in German history, even though Latin American migrants are being held in American concentration<\/strong> camps<\/strong> at this very moment. \u00bb And on that same day, a Department of Justice staffer named Sarah Fabian proposed continuing state-sanctioned child abuse by pretending that the words \u00bbsafe and sanitary\u00ab do not specify the provision of soap and toothbrushes to migrant children, many of whom have been separated from their parents by Trump\u2019s goons. \u00bb<\/p>\n

Saying, \u00bbThis is rape<\/strong>!\u00ab or \u00bbThat is a concentration<\/strong> camp!\u00ab or \u00bbThe government<\/strong> is abusing innocent children!\u00ab is not having the desired effect, because the president and his allies are leeching the powerful stigma attached to these crimes. \u00bb The loss of taboo<\/strong><\/span><\/strong> shows us its value, and how prohibitions are a crucial part of the social contract we live by. \u00bb In the absence of law<\/strong> or when the law<\/strong> is used to commit moral outrages, the taboo<\/strong><\/span><\/strong> is enforced by society and policed by language, which is why, for example, Republicans hysterically deny that U.S. \u00bb government<\/strong> is shuttling desperate migrants into \u00bbconcentration<\/strong> camps<\/strong>,\u00ab but, rather, into something else, something nameless. \u00bb<\/p>\n

Former Vice President Joe Biden<\/a>‘s time<\/strong> in the Obama White House remains a taboo<\/strong><\/span><\/strong> topic of attack for his 2020 rivals. \u00bb | Olivier Douliery\/Pool via Bloomberg 2020 elections Biden\u2019s rivals aren’t willing to touch one part of his record ‘People are very nostalgic for that time<\/strong>,’ one activist says of the risk of criticizing Biden’s time<\/strong> in the Obama administration. \u00bb<\/p>\n

Elizabeth Warren<\/a> has gone after him for taking \u00bbthe side of the credit card companies. \u00bb \u00ab Cory Booker<\/a> has called the 1994 crime bill that Biden helped write \u00bbawful\u00ab and \u00bbshameful. \u00bb But for most of Biden\u2019s Democratic rivals, they\u2019ve treated one part of his record as taboo<\/strong><\/span><\/strong> to criticize: His years in the Obama White House. \u00bb<\/p>\n

The text of this article was generated by the Breaking The Silence<\/a> system that collected 19<\/strong> news articles posted on the web from January 2019 to September 2020 and clustered for the taboo subjects related to Donald Trump<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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