[Peace-discuss] Jason Stanley - fascism

[Brussel, Morton K]

I think he only referred to Nazi Germany and Italy, past régimes, and then Hungary. Of course he left out many, for me, notably Ukraine (which Timothy Snyder defends), Israel and other candidates worldwide. In any case, yes, his arguments are too pat, and it is not clear just what his thoughts are about other régimes.

 He didn’t seem to me as bad as Snyder, but I haven’t looked into his other pronouncements. ...

On Oct 15, 2018, at 2:47 PM, David Green <davidgreen50 at gmail.com<mailto:davidgreen50 at gmail.com>> wrote:

https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000006154922/fascism-leaders-america-trump.html

My mistake, here is the correct link to 5 minute video.

On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 2:20 PM Brussel, Morton K <brussel at illinois.edu<mailto:brussel at illinois.edu>> wrote:
Is this the right link?  …holding to the farm…?

On Oct 15, 2018, at 11:40 AM, David Green via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net<mailto:peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>> wrote:

https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000006089069/holding-on-to-the-farm.html

Jason Stanley, a philosopher at Yale, is the new Timothy Snyder, a historian at Yale. They are both peddling a highly propagandistic argument, irony not withstanding, regarding what they see as current fascism. Stanley was interviewed, in uncritical fashion, by Amy Goodman last week. The NYT has given him a 5-minute video opinion column. It's absolutely lurid. But of course it says more about liberal opinion in the Trump era than it does about fascism, past or present.

Notice, by the way, the selectivity of the countries referred to: not Israel, of course; and not Saudi Arabia.

DG
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