Remembering the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau today, especially given the rise of the right in Europe, Hungarian fascists stomping through the streets of London, UKIP candidates denying the holocaust, Football players performing anti semitic salutes, the internet conspiracy loons and many of a left persuasion talking of the Rothchilds and secret cabal of jewish bankers, lizards and shape shifters, show us that not that it may happen again, the final solution was an effect of very specific set of economic and political variables; but how hatred of jews can be very much normalised within many of the population today. It show us how it could happen again how seemingly good people, who would never consider themselves racist, could still see worth in these age old anti-Semitic tropes. This poverty of thought, it seems, is still very much alive and well today in europe and in many other parts of the world. Thanks to JazzHands De Beauvoir for these words.
Posted on: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 10:38:32 +0000
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