Podcasts, videos, books and tweets of the week 4

Tracey blames the Holocaust on the USA

Michael “Roosevelt caused the Holocaust” Tracey’s tweet

Michael Tracey @mtracey

Sorry to break it to you, but the Holocaust was not prevented by US entry into WWII. It was upon US entry in Dec. 1941 that Hitler declared, "The world war is here, the annihilation of Jewry must be the necessary consequence," and then initiated the full-scale mass extermination

Andrew Fleischman @ASFleischman

@mtracey I disagree with your stance that we should have permitted the Holocaust, with only a smidgen of personal bias.

12:13 AM ∙ Sep 19, 2022

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The predictable Downfall of Michael Tracey

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2 years ago · Dustin Du Cane

And here:

The Racket

What we talk about when we talk about WWII

For the last week, a corner of the internet has been watching a blogger flail over a deceptively simple — and one might think long-resolved — question: Was the United States justified in fighting World War II? The blogger is one Michael Tracey, a 34-year-old New Jerseyite who has carved out a sizable audience as a “contrarian leftist” (that is, a right…

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2 years ago · 19 likes · 1 comment · Jonathan M. Katz

Dustin

Russian army song

Dustin

Budd of the week

Nick Budd @BuddNicholas

Just a reminder that no Ukrainian I’ve met laughs at this mobilisation.

NEXTA @nexta_tv

1.2 million people are going to be drafted into the Russian army This is reported by Meduza, citing a source close to the federal ministries. According to this source, it is planned to mobilize up to 16 thousand people in Moscow and about 3.2 thousand people in St. Petersburg. https://t.co/CbXCUES03t

10:12 AM ∙ Sep 24, 2022

Dustin

They fooled me tweet

Russian Embussy, UK @RussianEmbussy

💬 The Russian Embassy would like to invite all those interested in acquiring Russian citizenship to attend the Russian Embassy in London. After one year's service in the special military operation citizenship will be granted on an expedited basis

5:52 PM ∙ Sep 22, 2022

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Dustin

On the to-read list

Dustin

Good podcast as well

If you can’t see the button:

Why do people participate in genocide? In The Complexity of Evil: Perpetration and Genocide (Rutgers UP, 2020), Timothy Williams presents an interdisciplinary model that shows how complex and diverse, but also how ordinary and mundane most motivations for participating in genocide are. The book draws on empirical examples from the Holocaust and Rwanda and introduces new data from interviews with perpetrators of genocide in Cambodia. On my latest episode, we discuss all this and more.

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