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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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Ditto for her countryman the great playwright Athol Fugard.
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All of us living in today’s world are facing an enormous crisis – arguably the greatest that humanity has ever faced
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Leopold’s Congo is but one of those silences of history.
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And tens of millions of Americans will feel a similar revulsion for the politicians and generals who were so spendthrift with others’ lives.
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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.
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The Messerschmitt 109 fighter plane for example, the Stuka dive bomber, the 88 millimeter artillery piece, which could be used both for antiaircraft purposes and also shelling on the ground.
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I can certainly sympathize with writers who don’t want to put themselves or their loved ones at risk.
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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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And yet the world we live in-its divisions and conflicts, its widening gap between rich and poor
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You can sense the vast inequalities of Tsarist Russia in [Anton] Chekhov and [Lev] Tolstoy.
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Growing inequality is a huge problem, and of course is intimately connected to xenophobia and racism.
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A pioneer in this genre [ writing about the refugee crisis] : the book A Seventh Man, by the great John Berger, decades ago evoked the lives of migrant workers in Europe.
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Because they wanted a sympathetic ally in power. So I think it really was the opening act of World War II.
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I think one thing writers can do is point out that you don’t have to say openly racist things, like [Donald] Trump, to be a racist or a xenophobe.
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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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