Re:Sir Kazuo Ishiguro warns of young authors self-censoring ...
by BelenusMordred on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @12:29AM
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Thought I'd post what was said that made her lose her job for everyone to make up their own minds:
> Jews were beaten in the streets, not by Nazi soldiers but by their neighbors…even by children.
> "Because history is edited, most people today don't realize that to get to the point where Nazi soldiers could easily round up thousands of Jews, the government first made their own neighbors hate them simply for being Jews.
> "How is that any different from hating someone for their political views."
> Jews were beaten in the streets, not by Nazi soldiers but by their neighbors…even by children.
> "Because history is edited, most people today don't realize that to get to the point where Nazi soldiers could easily round up thousands of Jews, the government first made their own neighbors hate them simply for being Jews.
> "How is that any different from hating someone for their political views."