[Peace-discuss] Jason Stanley - fascism

[David Green]

I find Stanley's presentation to be utterly bombastic, and to assume some
of the characteristics (i.e., fearmongering) that fascism is accused of.

On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 11:22 PM Brussel, Morton K <brussel at illinois.edu>
wrote:

> 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> 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>
> 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> 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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