Jason Stanley with Senator Nikil Saval: Erasing History

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On Thursday, September 12th, 2024 the Midtown Scholar Bookstore hosted award-winning philosopher Jason Stanley for a conversation on his new book, Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future. Stanley was in conversation with Senator Nikil Saval.
Copies of this book are available from the Midtown Scholar Bookstore while supplies last, www.midtownsch...
Combining historical research with an in-depth analysis of our modern political landscape, Erasing History issues a dire warning for America and the world: the worst fascist movements of humanity’s past began in schools; the same place so many of today’s right-wing political parties have trained their most vicious attacks.
Donald Trump, Speaker Mike Johnson, Ron DeSantis, Vivek Ramaswamy, Vladimir Putin, Turkey’s Recip Erdogan, and Argentina’s Javier Milei have all reached the same conclusion: if you want to roll back the clock on civil rights, equity, and inclusion, a great place to start is in our schools.
Yale professor Jason Stanley exposes the true danger of the right’s tactics and traces their inspirations and funding back to some of the most dangerous ideas of human history. He shows that hearts and minds are won in our elementary schools, high schools, and universities-and that governments are currently ill-prepared to do the work of uprooting fascist policies being foisted upon our children through school boards, in courtrooms, and in the boardrooms of the companies trusted to train our teachers and create the materials they’ll share with their students.
Deeply informed and urgently needed, this book is a vibrant call to action for lovers of democracy worldwide.
About the Speakers:
Jason Stanley is the Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy at Yale University. He is the author of six books, including How Propaganda Works. Stanley serves on the board of the Prison Policy Initiative and writes frequently about propaganda, free speech, mass incarceration, democracy, and authoritarianism for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, and many other periodicals.
Senator Nikil Saval is a father, husband, writer, and organizer representing Pennsylvania's First Senatorial District, which lies in the heart of Philadelphia.
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@cpstr828 13 часов назад

The Holodomor narrative was first promoted during the post WWII era by far right Ukrainian exiles, though. These exiles were from Western Ukraine whereas the famine mostly affected the East. During the Holodomor Western Ukraine was under Polish rather than Soviet rule. They used the Holodomor as a Holocaust equivalent to cover up their own crimes, including involvement in the Holocaust. The Holodomor was a very real famine which did kill millions in for which the Soviet government does bare criminal responsibility. There is not really evidence, though, that it was a genocide aimed at eliminating Ukrainians. The victims were mostly Ukrainians, but also a sizeable proportion of non-Ukrainians in Southern Russia, Siberia, Central Asia, etc. It was the consequence of a combination of drought, the chaos brought about by earlier forced collectivization measures (also a major crime), and government unwillingness to appeal for foreign aid. The Soviet government was trying to sell the five year plan as a success story and this didn't fit the bill. Hence the cover-up. This was in contrast to the 1921 post civil war famine where the Soviet government did ask and did receive Western, mostly US, food aid. People died because they were "only" peasants. Being far from Moscow or Leningrad it was feasible to pull off a cover-up of the tragedy. In Ukraine, the famine would have affected people identifying as Ukrainian disproportionately, though. Peasants would have had a stronger Ukrainian identity when compared to urban populations who were more russified.