All over Budapest, statues have been replaced, museum exhibits have been redone, to turn ethnic Hungarians, not Jews, into the prime victims of the Germans during World War II.
ADAM HOCHSCHILDSkinner goes everywhere, from border crossings to brothels to bargaining sessions with dealers in human beings
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No international court can ever substitute for a working national justice system. Or for a society at piece.
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I think [George] Orwell is right. There are certainly moments when political differences appear minor, and someone can claim to be non-political or to want to stay out of the fray, but today is not one of those moments.
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You know, by 1936, Hitler was already talking very loudly about his desire to expand to the east.
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So people at the time really saw fascism not just as an evil but as an aggressive evil that seemed to be spreading.
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It’s tempting to want to blame it all on an easily identifiable target: Muslims, immigrants, refugees, blacks, Jews.
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Skinner goes everywhere, from border crossings to brothels to bargaining sessions with dealers in human beings
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Zachary Macaulay, who once traveled on a slave ship across the Atlantic, taking notes.
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Speaking of Germany in 1933, I don’t think you can remove yourself from politics when, in so many countries – the United States, Poland, Hungary, and many others
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Ronald Reagan perfected the subtler version long ago by talking about “welfare mothers” – a code phrase for people of colour.
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And he learned a great deal from it about the strengths and weaknesses of these different weapons.
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Even [Ernst] Hemingway, perhaps the most intentionally non-political of American writers, became passionately partisan during the Spanish Civil War.
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Hitler and Mussolini jumped in on the side of Francisco Franco and his Spanish nationalists, sent them vast amounts of military aid, airplanes, tanks and Mussolini sent 80,000 ground troops as well.
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Someday, I have no doubt, the dead from today’s wars will be seen with a similar sense of sorrow at needless loss and folly as those millions of men who lie in the cemeteries of France and Belgium
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It sure is a rising tide, and we have a particularly nasty exemplar of it in the U.S., in Donald Trump.
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In the form of man-made global warming; one can’t be neutral at such a moment. It’s like claiming to be neutral if you’re living in Germany in 1933.
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