Showing posts with label Nazis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nazis. Show all posts
Saturday, May 9, 2020

Susan Neiman's Learning from the Germans and Working Off the Nazi Past and the American Racist Past: A Report with Excerpts

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In February, I blogged a number of times about Susan Neiman's book Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil (Farra...
Wednesday, February 26, 2020

Quote for Day: "People Voted for Hitler as They Voted for Putin and Trump, Because They Didn't Want to Give up Their Own Privileges"

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PRRI, " Despite Chaos and Controversy, Trump Favorability Stable Throughout 2019 ," 26 Feb. 2020 In her book Learning from ...
Thursday, October 18, 2018

Was Dietrich Bonhoeffer Gay? Diane Reynolds' The Doubled Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer on the Biographical-Theological Evidence

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Diane Reynolds,  The Doubled Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Women, Sexuality, and Nazi Germany  (Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2016) ...
Friday, September 21, 2018

Charles Marsh's Biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Strange Glory, on Bonhoeffer's (Highly Contested) Homosexuality

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Here's another set of excerpts I'd like to share with you from Charles Marsh's excellent biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer,  ...
Tuesday, June 19, 2018

"The Same [Bible] Passage Sessions Cited Has Been Used to Justify Slavery and Nazism": Valuable Commentary on Sessions' and Huckabee-Sanders' Use of Romans 13

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Dear Jeff Sessions, are you aware that the argument you made today from Romans 13 was a central argument of the German Christian (Pro-Nazi...
Saturday, February 24, 2018

As Neo-Nazis Celebrate Murder of Gay Jewish College Student, Where Are the Churches? (When They're Not Firing Queer Employees and Supporting Anti-Queer Discrimination, That Is)

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Members of the neo-Nazi group Atomwaffen Division have been linked to five murders—most recently the stabbing death of a gay Jewish colle...
Wednesday, August 16, 2017

Vice's On-the-Ground Video Footage from Charlottesville: You Need to Watch

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Tuesday, August 15, 2017

After Charlottesville, Twitter Makes Lists and Names Names: "It Was the Silence of Good People That Allowed the Nazis to Flourish the First Time Around"

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Every single person who showed up at that torchlit rally on Friday night will forever be identifiable as a person who attended that r...
Sunday, January 15, 2017

Continuing Moral Witness: Churches and Their Apologists Offer Language of Healing in Face of Trump Presidency. We Need Language of Resistance.

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"The Further A Society Drifts From The Truth, The More It Will Hate Those That Speak It." ~George Orwell pic.twitter.com/C...
Friday, November 25, 2016

"One Wonders If These People Are People at All": Catholic Pro-Life Response?

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Grace Wilson, " CNN Segment on Anti-Semite Sparks Backlash " One wonders if these people are people at all : thus white nati...
Wednesday, October 19, 2016

Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen's Diary of a Man in Despair on Hitler: "Is There a Nation Today So Lacking in Perspective As to Deny the Possibility That Such a Mass Psychosis Could at Some Time in Its History Occur?"

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Reading Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen's Diary of a Man in Despair , trans. Paul Rubens (NY: Macmillan, 1970), as Donald Trump campai...
Tuesday, July 19, 2016

Why Was "This Mixture of Arrogance and Hankering for Advantage Breaking Out in Germany, of All Places?": The Testimony of Joachim Fest's Not I: Memoirs of a German Childhood As Donald Trump Rises to Power

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In his memoir entitled Not I: Memoirs of a German Childhood  (NY: Other Press, 2012) (trans. Martin Chalmers), Joachim Fest talks about...