this is an interesting poking-at of the evolution of a historical reference point over time--possibly the single most important reference point for Americans since 1945https://twitter.com/kilovh/status/1211088661636419584 …
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(earlier discussion)https://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1210824317711208450?s=19 …
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what I esp. like here is the new time dimension
@kilovh takes one story and tracks its elevation to mythical (here I emphasize in the "moral teaching" sense of the word rather than "fake") status, and its subsequent functional generalization, dilution, and perhaps disputation1 reply 0 retweets 8 likesShow this thread -
the Holocaust seems frankly impotent as a reference story today at once applied to everything (immigrant detention, Israel(!)), and to nothing (how are the Uyghers moving policy? how did we act in 1994?)
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