Dan Gardner at PastPresentFuture:
This has been a year in which terrible ideas buried and forgotten rose from the dead and ate many brains.
Tariffs-on-everything. Vaccines are poison. Fascism. Anti-Semitism. Hitler’s not so bad. And of course, ethnic nationalism, the idea that only people who share a common ancestry and culture can create a strong country. That particular zombie is even spreading across the United States, a country that never had a shared common ancestry and culture in its entire long, successful history.
Inevitably, I’ve found myself arguing with ethnic nationalists on social media, which is invariably a depressing experience. But the British zombies are the worst. “A thousand years of ethnic stability now destroyed by immigration,” is how one summed up British history to me.
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