Ronald Reagan perfected the subtler version long ago by talking about “welfare mothers” – a code phrase for people of colour.
ADAM HOCHSCHILDFive years ago, who would have thought this possible?
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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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It’s tempting to want to blame it all on an easily identifiable target: Muslims, immigrants, refugees, blacks, Jews.
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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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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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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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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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Mussolini, in 1935, went and then in the next year, conquered Ethiopia, acquiring himself a colony.
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Ditto for her countryman the great playwright Athol Fugard.
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Leopold’s Congo is but one of those silences of history.
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You can sense the vast inequalities of Tsarist Russia in [Anton] Chekhov and [Lev] Tolstoy.
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And American soldiers were the victims of these things in Spain, American volunteers. So this war was really a testing ground for Hitler.
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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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And he learned a great deal from it about the strengths and weaknesses of these different weapons.
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Skinner goes everywhere, from border crossings to brothels to bargaining sessions with dealers in human beings
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