vintage essay & quote on fascists
I linked this article before but have just re-read it (well worth it!), so I'm posting again:
"Kind, good, happy, gentlemanly, secure people never go Nazi. . . . Their race, color, creed, or social condition is not the criterion. It is something in them.
"Those who haven’t anything in them to tell them what they like and what they don’t—whether it is breeding, or happiness, or wisdom, or a code, however old-fashioned or however modern, go Nazi."
- Dorothy Thompson, Who Goes Nazi? https://harpers.org/archive/1941/08/who-goes-nazi/
vintage essay & quote on fascists
@ljwrites Dorothy Thompson does a great job with the character portraits in this piece, which always makes it an enjoyable read but I can’t help but find the accuracy of her predictions to be rather suspect. Mr H certainly, would fight against foreign Naziism, but an American grown fascist movement? He’d be blinded to its evils by his own patriotic pride at American Colonialism.
vintage essay & quote on fascists
@ljwrites yeah there are plenty of nice wholesome values oriented people of the type eho she says’ll never turn fascist who’ll choose whiteness over anti-fascism every time
vintage essay & quote on fascists
@Satsuma yeah I definitely saw the fault lines there. I don't think Thompson or her all- (or mostly?) white cast realize that U.S. racial segregation was an inspiration to Hitler, for just one example.