Semiotics are powerful. Your analysis dovetails nicely with Jason Stanley’s article in Just Security, “Movie at the Ellipse”. I was recently reviewing a recording of an African American GI who liberated a concentration camp in WW2. Also watched a presentation on how African Americans used their knowledge of the camps, European fascism an…
Semiotics are powerful. Your analysis dovetails nicely with Jason Stanley’s article in Just Security, “Movie at the Ellipse”. I was recently reviewing a recording of an African American GI who liberated a concentration camp in WW2. Also watched a presentation on how African Americans used their knowledge of the camps, European fascism and Jim Crow to craft ways of framing their civil rights struggle. Make no mistake about it, their civil rights struggle is every American’s civil rights struggle whether we realize it or not. Rising antisemitism is a good indicator of risks for human rights and civil rights abuses. We are experiencing some of the highest levels of it now with absolutely no sign of it loosing momentum notwithstanding the very important trial happening right now on The Charlottesville Unite the Right Rally.
Barry, your account of the iconography of Donald Trump, Jr.‘s gun is important and enlightening.
As today’s Washington Post investigative article about January 6 shows once again, the American people have a vast picture in plain sight, right in front of them, that clearly displays the fascist coup in slow motion we are living through. But they are like a fly crawling on a mosaic, unable to see this picture except in bits and pieces without larger meaning.
It is essential that those who can identify the signs of the times, like RBG, Jason Stanley, and you, continue to do so, so that people may come to understand these signs.
Soon, in preparation for the 2022 elections, the proto-fascists will again be turning public discourse into the same hysterical, nonstop chaos (like Carlson’s video) that it was from 2016 to 2020. We need to find a way to slow our experience of public life down and lower the temperature, so that people can think for themselves, distinguish reality from fantasy, and figure out who their real enemies are.
It is good to learn of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies.
Semiotics are powerful. Your analysis dovetails nicely with Jason Stanley’s article in Just Security, “Movie at the Ellipse”. I was recently reviewing a recording of an African American GI who liberated a concentration camp in WW2. Also watched a presentation on how African Americans used their knowledge of the camps, European fascism and Jim Crow to craft ways of framing their civil rights struggle. Make no mistake about it, their civil rights struggle is every American’s civil rights struggle whether we realize it or not. Rising antisemitism is a good indicator of risks for human rights and civil rights abuses. We are experiencing some of the highest levels of it now with absolutely no sign of it loosing momentum notwithstanding the very important trial happening right now on The Charlottesville Unite the Right Rally.
From Yale’s Fortunoff Video Archives:
https://fortunoff.aviaryplatform.com/collections/128/collection_resources/10409?u=t&keywords%5B%5D=Leon&keywords%5B%5D=bass
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7Kp-r1Bm_rs&feature=youtu.be
Barry, your account of the iconography of Donald Trump, Jr.‘s gun is important and enlightening.
As today’s Washington Post investigative article about January 6 shows once again, the American people have a vast picture in plain sight, right in front of them, that clearly displays the fascist coup in slow motion we are living through. But they are like a fly crawling on a mosaic, unable to see this picture except in bits and pieces without larger meaning.
It is essential that those who can identify the signs of the times, like RBG, Jason Stanley, and you, continue to do so, so that people may come to understand these signs.
Soon, in preparation for the 2022 elections, the proto-fascists will again be turning public discourse into the same hysterical, nonstop chaos (like Carlson’s video) that it was from 2016 to 2020. We need to find a way to slow our experience of public life down and lower the temperature, so that people can think for themselves, distinguish reality from fantasy, and figure out who their real enemies are.
It is good to learn of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies.