Who Goes Nazi? (1941)
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Who Goes Nazi? (1941)
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#2Summary: The journalist Dorothy Thompson describes people she encounters at a party (presumably in New York), assessing who might become Nazis and who would not if the United States tilted in that direction. The article was published in Harper’s Magazine in August 1941, when Naziism was firmly in place in Germany and expanding violently in Europe but the U.S. had not yet entered the war.
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#3What a fascinating article! Thank you.
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#4This is a completely vacuous and honestly pretty awful piece. Wow, all of the people she deems to be fundamentally good would never ever go Nazi while all of those she deems to be fundamentally contemptible (often due to their class background, no less) would definitely jump at the chance. What a shocker.
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#5This is a completely vacuous and honestly pretty awful piece. Wow, all of the people she deems to be fundamentally good would never ever go Nazi while all of those she deems to be fundamentally contemptible (often due to their class background, no less) would definitely jump at the chance. What a shocker.
Nazism is fundamentally evil. Author tries to highlight that there are certain types of people that would get attracted. You can see this first hand with softer version - Trumpism, immigrants from Latin America supporting Trump as you had Jewish supporting Hitler.
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#6This is a completely vacuous and honestly pretty awful piece. Wow, all of the people she deems to be fundamentally good would never ever go Nazi while all of those she deems to be fundamentally contemptible (often due to their class background, no less) would definitely jump at the chance. What a shocker.
Nazism is fundamentally evil. Author tries to highlight that there are certain types of people that would get attracted. You can see this first hand with softer version - Trumpism, immigrants from Latin America supporting Trump as you had Jewish supporting Hitler.
You just proved their point. Not much has changed in 70 years - still plenty of self-appointed “educated elite” who are more than happy to explain why other people are wrong yet never turn that same filter on themselves. Their bubble and isolation (“he had a classical education”) has left them so out of touch with the life of the common man that they can’t fathom any explanation for their beliefs but character weakness and ignorance. All while ignoring their own blind spots.
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#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nazism is fundamentally evil. Author tries to highlight that there are certain types of people that would get attracted. You can see this first hand with softer version - Trumpism, immigrants from Latin America supporting Trump as you had Jewish supporting Hitler.
You just proved their point. Not much has changed in 70 years - still plenty of self-appointed “educated elite” who are more than happy to explain why other people are wrong yet never turn that same filter on themselves. Their bubble and isolation (“he had a classical education”) has left them so out of touch with the life of the common man that they can’t fathom any explanation for their beliefs but character weakne…
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> Their race, color, creed, or social condition is not the criterion (to go Nazi). It is something in them.
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> Author tries to highlight that there are certain types of people that would get attracted.
If you disagree with that, what do you suggest as an alternative explanation?
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
You just proved their point. Not much has changed in 70 years - still plenty of self-appointed “educated elite” who are more than happy to explain why other people are wrong yet never turn that same filter on themselves. Their bubble and isolation (“he had a classical education”) has left them so out of touch with the life of the common man that they can’t fathom any explanation for their beliefs but character weakne…
Article: > Their race, color, creed, or social condition is not the criterion (to go Nazi). It is something in them. Grandparent comment: > Author tries to highlight that there are certain types of people that would get attracted. If you disagree with that, what do you suggest as an alternative explanation?
There's no need to provide "alternative" theories to clumsy pointless articles. That kind of clutter just needs to be pointed out for its foolishness and ignored, nothing more.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Article: > Their race, color, creed, or social condition is not the criterion (to go Nazi). It is something in them. Grandparent comment: > Author tries to highlight that there are certain types of people that would get attracted. If you disagree with that, what do you suggest as an alternative explanation?
There's no need to provide "alternative" theories to clumsy pointless articles. That kind of clutter just needs to be pointed out for its foolishness and ignored, nothing more.
I'm interested in alternative theories of this kind of social movement and who signs up for it, article or not. Or rather, I would be interested in alternative theories, if I thought that the article was fundamentally wrong rather than just a bit dated in the presentation; understandably so as it was written 80 years ago.
Any thoughts? Or should we say that it's just random who signs up?
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