Anon Archived Why Jelani Cobb Thinks Its Useful to Call the Charlottesville Demonstrators Nazis (slate.com)
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Anon Archived Why Jelani Cobb Thinks Its Useful to Call the Charlottesville Demonstrators Nazis (slate.com)
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'I think that at one point it was prudent to ignore those movements, because they were looking for counterprotests for attention. '
'And so when we say “Nazi,” we summon the idea of the United States’ moral victories, and military ones. '
'It was expressed in popular culture and enjoined with American racism in a way we find very familiar now. '
'So there was sanction for these views in 1915 and 1916 and 1917 from the highest offices in the land. '
'There’s the Southern Strategy and Nixon, to see just how they could cobble together this coalition that included Southern whites around issues of race. '
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