from the new-breed-of-surveillance-statists dept

  • takeda@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons From the 20th Century by Prof. Snyder is a book that everyone should read these days.

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      2 months ago

      Of his own personal experiences Ionesco wrote:

      University professors, students, intellectuals were turning Nazi, becoming Iron Guards, one after the other. At the beginning, certainly they were not Nazis. About fifteen of us would get together to talk and to try to find arguments opposing theirs. It was not easy…. From time to time, one of our friends said: “I don’t agree with them, to be sure, but on certain points, nevertheless, I must admit, for example, the Jews …,” etc. And this was a symptom. Three weeks later, this person would become a Nazi. He was caught in the mechanism, he accepted everything, he became a rhinoceros. Towards the end, only three or four of us were still resisting.

      Replace Jews with trans and you have a discussion we only have too often with fellow “leftists”.