Zack Beauchamp

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Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

The effect of World War II mythology on America's future willingness to wage bad wars is also dramatically overstated. Sure, foreign villains are often compared to Hitler, but that's rhetoric — not actually the reason America invaded Vietnam or Iraq or Afghanistan — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Nov. 30, 2021

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The way we talk about World War II and the Civil War as moral causes speaks to our contemporary values, working to strengthen public values against bigotry and indifference to far-away suffering. That does really important normative work for the American project. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Nov. 30, 2021

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But fundamentally, I'd like authors of books like these to meet a Holocaust survivor in the eyes and tell them to their face that the country is wrong to celebrate its role in their survival. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Nov. 30, 2021