> I hear right-on people mouthing the claims of white supremacists, apparently in total ignorance of their origins. > We should be aware of this history, but w

> I hear right-on people mouthing the claims of white supremacists, apparently in total ignorance of their origins. > We should be aware of this history, but without indulging what Simon Schama calls the “obscene syllogism”: the idea that because the Nazis promoted new age beliefs, alternative medicine and ecological protection, anyone who does so is a Nazi. It's odd he does not call those (unnamed) claims false, only disparages their origins, while in the next paragraph cautions against exactly this kind of guilt by association.