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 HOCHSCHILDIts seemingly inexplicable outbursts of violence-is shaped far less by what we celebrate and mythologize than by the painful events we try to forget.
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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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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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And yet the world we live in-its divisions and conflicts, its widening gap between rich and poor
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If your real wages are declining, your job is at risk, you fear your children will be worse off than you are
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Its seemingly inexplicable outbursts of violence-is shaped far less by what we celebrate and mythologize than by the painful events we try to forget.
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Mussolini, in 1935, went and then in the next year, conquered Ethiopia, acquiring himself a colony.
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After all, where else in the world at this point did you have Americans in uniform who were being bombed by Nazi planes four years before the U.S. entered World War II?
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Zachary Macaulay, who once traveled on a slave ship across the Atlantic, taking notes.
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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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Things have gotten openly more extreme in the last few years. I was lecturing in Hungary, whose prime minister, Victor Orban, is an example of this trend.
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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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Skinner goes everywhere, from border crossings to brothels to bargaining sessions with dealers in human beings
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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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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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To bring us this vivid, searing account of the wide network of human trafficking and servitude which spans today’s globe.
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