It sure is a rising tide, and we have a particularly nasty exemplar of it in the U.S., in Donald Trump.
ADAM HOCHSCHILDIn 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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You’ve got politicians in power or vying for power who are taking tactics and elements of their appeal from the playbook of fascism.
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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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I’m after a snake and please God I’ll scotch it.
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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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The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.
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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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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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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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Growing inequality is a huge problem, and of course is intimately connected to xenophobia and racism.
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Skinner goes everywhere, from border crossings to brothels to bargaining sessions with dealers in human beings
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Five years ago, who would have thought this possible?
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In Canada, the U.S. and most of Europe it may be easy to take political stands, this is something for which you can be forced to pay with your life, or your freedom, in many other parts of the world, from Iran to Russia to Pakistan to China.
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Many of the principle weapons that the Nazis used during World War II had their first trial in combat in Spain
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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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