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.
ADAM HOCHSCHILDBecause they wanted a sympathetic ally in power. So I think it really was the opening act of World War II.
More Adam Hochschild Quotes
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Skinner goes everywhere, from border crossings to brothels to bargaining sessions with dealers in human beings
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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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Zachary Macaulay, who once traveled on a slave ship across the Atlantic, taking notes.
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How many really great writers are there who are totally non-political? You can hear the French Revolution in the poetry of [Percy Bysshe] Shelly and [John] Wordsworth
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I think writers can respond by writing about the refugee crisis, by looking at problems faced by migrants, by trying hard to portray them as the human beings that they are.
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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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Compared with how we’ve ducked it in the United States, Canada should be really proud of how you have welcomed a significant number of refugees – far more, in fact, than we Americans have, even though our population is vastly larger.
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Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.
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Mussolini, in 1935, went and then in the next year, conquered Ethiopia, acquiring himself a colony.
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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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Ditto for her countryman the great playwright Athol Fugard.
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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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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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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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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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