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NY Expat's avatar

This could be worthwhile (I won’t be able to pick it up until my many exams are done in about three years, sorry!)

I am curious about the “Jim Crow inspired the Nazis” line that has been amplified by *Caste*: How is it established that this wasn’t a line from Hitler, et al to discredit the U.S., rather than the claim that Jim Crow was an “operational handbook” for the Nazis, as it were?

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Daniel Oppenheimer's avatar

Not sure. He doesn't footnote that claim.

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Greg's avatar

Have you previously read Jamal Green's How Rights Went Wrong? https://academic.oup.com/icon/article/20/2/915/6671313?login=false

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Daniel Oppenheimer's avatar

I haven't. Worth reading?

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Greg's avatar

I don't know; it's been one I want to check out for a while but havent found time for. I THINK it could be germane to some of what the book you are discussing is positing, but haven;t read it to know.

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Ross Barkan's avatar

I will read and assign! Daniel, if you aren't writing about it for anyone else, you can write it for TMR!

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Daniel Oppenheimer's avatar

I'm too overwhelmed right now to commit to anything. But yes, read and assign!

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Naomi Kanakia's avatar

This sounds great!

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Daniel Oppenheimer's avatar

I feel like I wrote this somewhat under the influence of our dialogue, in the sense that I took your point about the need to chill on the anti-wokeness but also my point that I'd rather talk to people who are going back to foundational questions, from a left wing vantage point, than people who are repeating woke narratives. All of which is to say that you're definitely someone who should read this book.

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Naomi Kanakia's avatar

I got the message :) I remember you mentioned him! I'll look out for it. I would love a new paradigm for thinking about racial justice

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