• afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Do we? Hasn’t there been lots of books written by Europeans who lived thru the 1930s documented step by step how their nation fell.

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      1 year ago

      Books that the majority of Americans are too apathetic, ideologically poisoned or just busy to read, much less take concrete actions as a result.

      I wish it wasn’t so, but that’s the current reality. Telling your average Faux News viewer to read and honestly reflect on objective history books is a fool’s errand.

      We have to fight intolerance not with the information of the tolerant, but with vilification, exclusion and other severe consequences for their misanthropic words and actions.