Erasing History: How Fascism Works (w/ Jason Stanley)
Erasing History: How Fascism Works (w/ Jason Stanley).
Jason Stanley, author, American philosopher and Yale professor, gives proper context to what fascism means and how the Trump administration’s second term could really mean the completion of the American fascist state.
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Yes, very good and interesting, concentrating on fascist inroads on USAmerican education but ranging further afield. It explains very well why we should support universal secular comprehensive education in Scotland, state-funded but without a ‘patriotic’ bias. And reject private and religious education, which promote partisan narratives and worldviews. We should challenge rosy views that Scotland was better for being whiter, more Christian, more patriarchal, more hierarchical, more privatised than public in the past, more culturally homogenous, and that these past institutions produced the Great Men (Occasionally Women) who made history. These are not just small-c conservative but far right tropes.
I very much agree with the view that fascist ideology attempts to erase the agency (individual or collective) of ‘ordinary’ people, but would also like to point out that is also what superhero fiction typically does. Superman fights for fascism (this is hypocrisy rather than irony), something that some comic writers have artfully depicted.