{"id":411,"date":"2008-08-10T18:49:07","date_gmt":"2008-08-10T16:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/?p=1104"},"modified":"2008-08-10T18:49:07","modified_gmt":"2008-08-10T16:49:07","slug":"step-by-step-oh-baby-fascism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/step-by-step-oh-baby-fascism\/","title":{"rendered":"Step by step, oh baby! (Fascism)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt from <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.press.uchicago.edu\/Misc\/Chicago\/511928.html\">They thought they were free<\/a><\/strong> about the gradual changes in Germany that culminated in atrocities. Comparisons between anything current and 1930 Nazis falls under <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Godwin%27s_law\">Godwin&#8217;s law<\/a>, but it&#8217;s a shining example of what a slippery slope looks like.<\/p>\n<p><em>Each act, each occasion, is worse than the last, but only a little worse. You wait for the next and the next. You wait for one great shocking occasion, thinking that others, when such a shock comes, will join with you in resisting somehow. You don\u2019t want to act, or even talk, alone; you don\u2019t want to \u2018go out of your way to make trouble.\u2019 Why not?\u2014Well, you are not in the habit of doing it.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As with so many other articles I link to, this one showed up in a reference over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\">Metafilter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Also, my brother and his woman visited Gothenburg this weekend.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/blog_uploads\/2008\/08\/img_9121.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"img_9121\" width=\"640\" height=\"335\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1128\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/blog_uploads\/2008\/08\/tomasz_frida_ullevi_liten.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"tomasz_frida_ullevi_liten\" width=\"640\" height=\"340\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1123\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/blog_uploads\/2008\/08\/img_8107.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"img_8107\" width=\"640\" height=\"234\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1124\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/blog_uploads\/2008\/08\/img_9110.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"img_9110\" width=\"640\" height=\"273\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1127\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt from They thought they were free about the gradual changes in Germany that culminated in atrocities. Comparisons between anything current and 1930 Nazis falls under Godwin&#8217;s law, but it&#8217;s a shining example of what a slippery slope looks like. Each act, each occasion, is worse than the last, but only a little worse. You &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/step-by-step-oh-baby-fascism\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Step by step, oh baby! (Fascism)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,5],"tags":[52,72,134,149,247,370,389,393],"class_list":["post-411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doodles","category-found","category-friends","tag-book","tag-clouds","tag-fascism","tag-frida","tag-moth","tag-tomasz","tag-ullevi","tag-ur-hitler"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}