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Who Goes Nazi? By Dorothy Thompson (Harper’s, 1941)

by greggarious on 1/15/23, 11:02 AM with 4 comments

  • by 082349872349872 on 1/15/23, 12:30 PM

    > ...the product of a democracy hypocritically preaching social equality and practicing a carelessly brutal snobbery.

    Some things change slowly.

    [Note on HN relevance: America got von Neumann and Gödel and Einstein and so many others (tbf also, a bit later, von Braun and co.!) because of what were, at that time, Continental politics]

    [Edit: I had originally said "glacially" instead of "slowly", but remembered that 1941 was before both the desegregation of the armed forces and, later, of the Civil Rights Movement]