Mr. Altman paints a picture of non-Muslims being carefully primed, through a campaign of falsehoods, to be ready to treat Muslims as Jews were once treated by the Nazis. Here is his scarcely-believable, hysterical warning: Social scientists agree that attacks on an entire class of people — whether identified by their race, religion, education, or […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: Foreign Policy’s Daniel Altman On Trump’s “Disgusting Racist Alt Right Retweets”
Daniel Altman, the editor of Foreign Policy, recently delivered himself of an article, “This Is How Every Genocide Begins,” in which he claims that President Trump’s retweeting of three “anti-Islamic” videos reminds him of the years leading up to the Holocaust. Many absurd remarks have been made about these videos, but none as hysterically absurd […]
Foreign Policy on Trump’s retweets of videos showing Muslims being violent: “This is how every genocide begins”
“Despite these parallels, it may still seem like a stretch to link a few retweets to the Holocaust.” Uh, yeah. “One of the precursors to the Nazi ascendancy was the immense popularity, in the painful aftermath of World War I, of a book purporting to disclose Jews’ plans for global domination: The Protocols of the […]