We have all fallen into the error of calling the totalitarian ideology, which either ignored or alienated those who are unlike them, as "modernism," have we not?
If it was possible to maintain this perception in the current age, the indigenous people of the U.S. would still be the target of all-out slaughter and black men would not have acquired electoral franchise.
Until the 1930s, neither Jews nor Catholics could get into the prestigious universities known as "Ivy League" in the U.S. which stands for multi-vocality and democratic freedoms today. At one time in the past, only the Anglo-Saxons and "White Americans" could constitute the elite stratum.
Abdülhamid and Meiji
In the 20th century, although one is the cradle of the Renaissance and the other is the homeland of the Reformation, both Italy and Germany caved into fascism and Nazism; a story from the not too distant past.
The Ottoman Sultan Abdülhamid and Japanese emperor Meiji carried out Western- style reforms in their countries. The West inculcated militarism and fascism to these societies which were far removed from the West. The Japanese were a uninational and unilingual society living on a single island. They reflected their hatred against those who were unlike them by committing inhuman violence against the Chinese and Koreans. On the contrary, the Ottoman Empire was a multilingual, multi-faith and multinational state. People of different nations suffered massacre on these soils? End of disharmony We are heading toward the 100th anniversary of the Turkish Republic, and as such we need to get rid of our outdated habits that cling onto our political and intellectual life like glue. In a world where a black American is elected president, being a "White American" or a "White Turk" does not represent a privileged status.
Those who isolate themselves from society and think of themselves as superior to people will end up in lunatic asylum sooner or later.
The main indicator of the wisdom is conformity to the present time and society. In brief, both active and inactive participants of politics had better update their knowledge of history and cleanse the detrimental germs from their consciousness.
Political unconsciousness
Sırrı Sakık, newly elected mayor of Agrı, set to work by saying that he would cleanse Kazım Karabekir's name from the city. Before doing this, he first needs to acknowledge that Karabekir was charged with execution at the Independence Tribunals and his book was banned. Have those who have offered to move Nazım Hikmet's grave to Gezi Park ever thought what he suffered during the oneparty regime?
The implanted fascistic ideology regards specific elements of our society as "minority" and who either ignore or eliminate them.
Don't the representatives of this ideology behave as if their eyes are shut to the "majority?"
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