Political bias blinds many to the current danger. Three years ago, the alumnae/i association of my alma mater Hunter College High School organized a Holocaust Remembrance Day event on Zoom, in which several of my former classmates gave moving accounts of their experiences in escaping the horrors of fascist totalitarianism and anti-Semiti…
Political bias blinds many to the current danger. Three years ago, the alumnae/i association of my alma mater Hunter College High School organized a Holocaust Remembrance Day event on Zoom, in which several of my former classmates gave moving accounts of their experiences in escaping the horrors of fascist totalitarianism and anti-Semitism. But I was deeply dismayed by the minimal response to the queries I posted to the chat asking about any parallels today and, in particular, about threats coming from the left. To the latter point, the only response I received was from a non-panelist who suggested that my concern was probably due to “watching too much Fox or Newsmax.”
In a follow-up message to the event organizers at hunter, I argued that “the impulse for totalitarian control now evidenced by the Left (from censorship and cancel culture to the lopsidedly ‘progressive’ rewriting of American history and the systemic embrace of critical race theory) probably pose a far graver danger to us all than any fascist-inspired incidents of late.” My subsequent suggestion for an event dealing with those urgent concerns fell on deaf ears.
Political bias blinds many to the current danger. Three years ago, the alumnae/i association of my alma mater Hunter College High School organized a Holocaust Remembrance Day event on Zoom, in which several of my former classmates gave moving accounts of their experiences in escaping the horrors of fascist totalitarianism and anti-Semitism. But I was deeply dismayed by the minimal response to the queries I posted to the chat asking about any parallels today and, in particular, about threats coming from the left. To the latter point, the only response I received was from a non-panelist who suggested that my concern was probably due to “watching too much Fox or Newsmax.”
In a follow-up message to the event organizers at hunter, I argued that “the impulse for totalitarian control now evidenced by the Left (from censorship and cancel culture to the lopsidedly ‘progressive’ rewriting of American history and the systemic embrace of critical race theory) probably pose a far graver danger to us all than any fascist-inspired incidents of late.” My subsequent suggestion for an event dealing with those urgent concerns fell on deaf ears.