Whites who feel threatened by the rise of Black political power have often romanticized the founders to justify violence.
Klemperer was expecting to be deported when the end of the war set him free. He stayed in Germany to continue his linguistic analysis. While many Germans seemed to support democracy, their language still betrayed traces of the Nazi assault on language. For instance, they continued to speak of “concentration camps” and favored superlatives. It had taken decades to establish the language of the Third Reich, and it would take decades to get rid of it.
At the same time, the language of democracy will need to be shored up, an effort that requires modesty instead of superlatives, evidence instead of blind belief and thoughtful questions instead of exclamation points. Social media makes fostering measured language doubly difficult. President Biden’s team reportedly was unhappy that he wouldbut not its millions of followers. But a fresh start, and a calmer style of presidential Twitter, is precisely what we need.
opinion Wordsmithing and nuance are an art. Breitbart was a school for this initiated by the far right, and Bannon ran it. The Mercer’s help sustain it. Since Reagan, Republicans solicited efforts to re-frame issue with words. Codes developed. Accelerated in the 1990’s. Breitbart. Trump
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opinion Is this in a history book? No. Then shut up.
opinion There have been more similarities with the Nazi era, especially 1933 - 1936/7 than one might feel comfortable with in the US in the last 4 years.
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