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@jeffryhouse Eichmann turns out to be more of a bragging antisemite than Arendt expected, but in any detailed account I read of the Nazi genocide, I find example after example of Arendtian bureaucrats, and so many of the phenomena she identifies.On twitter.com
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@jeffryhouse I want to arm students with a range of characters that inhabit the perpetration of genocide, and the hate-filled zealot, the petty opportunist, the loyal bureaucrat, the hired sadist (Kafka's flogger), and the misled idealist (younger Ellsberg) all seem present each time.Permalink On twitter.com
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@jeffryhouse Not to mention the timid objector who allows his conscience to interrupt his work, but only for a few days.Permalink On twitter.com
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@jeffryhouse Arendt, writing as an indignant survivor who gives contempt to the contemptible, acquaints us with most of these figues while outlining a continent's worth of horror in a manageable short volume of text.Permalink On twitter.com