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That strategy worked so well in 1930s Europe (not just Germany). Extremist views are hard to fight when they are safely hidden away. Like any infection, it's
by masonic 9y ago
That strategy worked so well in 1930s Europe (not just Germany).
Extremist views are hard to fight when they are safely hidden away. Like any infection, it's best to expose them to the light of day. It's more effective to point and laugh than to throw projectiles and yell. (Had that strategy been employed in 1923, there would have been no Mein Kampf.)
- irishasaurus 9y agoRiiiiiiight, that's why underground groups on the far left like anarchists and communists were so successful in Poland, Spain, Greece and elsewhere. The far right was normalized and that's how they grew their ranks. It was the editor that published Mein Kampf as well as Hitler. It was the Italian media and the futurists that helped Mussolini gain power. This isn't about censorship, this is about how fascists can co-opt the democratic process and rise to power. How fascism was covered by the media http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-journalists-covered-rise-mussolini-hitler-180961407/ http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-journalists-covere... The myth of political correctness https://thinkprogress.org/the-phony-debate-about-political-correctness-f81da03b3bdb/ https://thinkprogress.org/the-phony-debate-about-political-c... What normalization looks like today https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/normalization-lesson-munich-post/ https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/normalization-lesson-mun...