3. I remember guys in high school who had a fascination with Nazi paraphernalia. Trill of touching the taboo was there too.
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4. But Aleksandar Hemon, the excellent Bosnian-American writers, has a story illustrating limits of this explanation.
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5. In 1986, in Yugoslavia, Hemon went to a Nazi-themed party with some young adult friends.
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6. This was communist Yugoslavia, so Hemon saw the party as being fellow kids thumbing their nose at the system.
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7. The Nazi-themed party was investigated by Communist officials, who treated it like a legitimate threat to the state.
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8. But here's the kicker: when Yugoslavia fell apart, the woman who organized the party emerged as a genuine fascist-nationalist.
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9. So what Hemon thought was play-acting and nose-tweaking was, at least in some cases, a display of actual politics.
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10. Peforming racism can become real racism. The mask can become the face.
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11. To put it another way, since racism is not in fact natural but a social artifact, all racism is a performance of racism.
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@willwilkinson Right, but I see tribalism as different from racism.
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@willwilkinson Interesting test case are Native American groups (pre-contact and early contact) who were very tribal but not racist.2 replies 0 retweets 1 like - Show replies
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