Originally posted by Last Conformist
The real problem isn't Nazi comparisons per se, but the use of inapt but emotionally charged comparisons.
The real problem isn't Nazi comparisons per se, but the use of inapt but emotionally charged comparisons.
"But the real problem with typological thinking about history is that it is not historical thinking at all. It is ahistorical thinking. It obscures and obliterates all the differences between historical circumstances in favor of a gross, immutable, edifying similarity. It is an insufficiently worldly way to judge the world."
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