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Tracey blames the Holocaust on the USA

Dustin Du Cane

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Michael “Roosevelt caused the Holocaust” Tracey’s tweet

Covered here:

The predictable Downfall of Michael Tracey
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And here:

What we talk about when we talk about WWII
For the last week, a corner of the internet has been watching a blogger flail over a deceptively simple — and one might think long-resolved — question: Was the United States justified in fighting World War II? The blogger is one Michael Tracey, a 34-year-old New Jerseyite who has carved out a sizable audience as a “contrarian leftist” (that is, a right-…
The Racket

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Russian army song

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Budd of the week

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They fooled me tweet

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On the to-read list

Dustin

Good podcast as well

If you can’t see the button:

Why do people participate in genocide? In The Complexity of Evil: Perpetration and Genocide (Rutgers UP, 2020), Timothy Williams presents an interdisciplinary model that shows how complex and diverse, but also how ordinary and mundane most motivations for participating in genocide are. The book draws on empirical examples from the Holocaust and Rwanda and introduces new data from interviews with perpetrators of genocide in Cambodia. On my latest episode, we discuss all this and more.

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