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Warschau zwischen dem deutschen Überfall, der Kapitulation und dem Kriegsende. Eine schwarze Epoche, in der auch der Vorkriegskönig Jakub Shapiro aus der polnischen Halbwelt ein König ohne Untertan ist. Dunkelste Schwärze herrscht auf Warschaus Straßen. Und so ist auch der, der jahrelang von Schutzgelderpressung, Auftragsmord und Straßenkriminalität lebte, am Ende. [...]
Szczepan Twardoch ist ein Autor der sogenannten dritten Generation, der man eine Ästhetisierung des nationalsozialistischen Horrors wieder zugesteht. Die Debatte um Jonathan Littells Roman „Die Wohlgesinnten“ hat vor knapp fünfzehn Jahren gezeigt, dass man sich einer literarischen Auseinandersetzung mit dem Judenmord nicht aus der Erinnerung, sondern aus der Überlieferung heraus stellen muss. Twardoch gelingt es als Vertreter dieser Generation, das große Geschichtsactionrad so geschickt zu drehen, dass die Opfer dabei nicht zum Spielmaterial einer zügellosen Phantasie werden.
Yasna wrote:The three books that drove Glenn Loury away from the right in the 90s.
1. The End of Racism by Dinesh D'Souza
2. The Bell Curve by Charles A. Murray and Richard Herrnstein
3. America in Black & White by Abigail Thernstrom and Stephan Thernstrom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myN-Nwik_fI
Rí.na.dTeangacha wrote:I haven't read The End of Racism or America in Black & White, but I did read The Bell Curve. Did I miss it in the video, or did Glenn not really say why he didn't like The Bell Curve? He said that it's a serious book that can't just be dismissed out of hand, but I didn't catch the part where he explained why it pushed him away from the right (not that I couldn't guess or anything, but I'm wondering if I just wasn't paying enough attention to the video...).
EDIT: I think he simply says "We could go into it" and "It's a deep rabbit-hole", essentially saying that his critique would take too long to go into here, which is totally understandable given the amount of material in the book.
The authors will surely get more grief than they deserve for having stated the facts of this matter—that on the average blacks lag significantly behind whites in cognitive functioning. That is not my objection. What I find problematic is their suggestion that we accommodate ourselves to the inevitability of the difference in mental performance among the races in America. This posture of resignation is an unacceptable response to today's tragic reality. We can be prudent and hard-headed about what government can and cannot accomplish through its various instruments of policy without abandoning hope of achieving racial reconciliation within our national community.
In reality, the record of black American economic and educational achievement in the post-civil-rights era has been ambiguous—great success mixed with shocking failure. Myriad explanations for the failure have been advanced, but the account that attributes it to the limited mental abilities of blacks is singular in its suggestion that we must learn to live with current racial disparities....
The question now on the floor, in the minds of blacks as well as whites, is whether blacks are capable of gaining equal status, given equality of opportunity. It is a peculiar mind that fails to fathom how poisonous a question this is for our democracy. Let me state my unequivocal belief that blacks are, indeed, so capable. Still, any assertion of equal black capacity is a hypothesis or an axiom, not a fact. The fact is that blacks have something to prove, to ourselves and to what W. E. B. Du Bois once characterized as "a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity." This is not fair; it is not right; but it is the way things are.
Yasna wrote:https://www.bradford-delong.com/2018/06/three-conservatives-on-why-charles-murrays-ideas-are-bankupt-in-the-academic-intellectual-marketplace.htmlThe authors will surely get more grief than they deserve for having stated the facts of this matter—that on the average blacks lag significantly behind whites in cognitive functioning. That is not my objection. What I find problematic is their suggestion that we accommodate ourselves to the inevitability of the difference in mental performance among the races in America. This posture of resignation is an unacceptable response to today's tragic reality. We can be prudent and hard-headed about what government can and cannot accomplish through its various instruments of policy without abandoning hope of achieving racial reconciliation within our national community.
In reality, the record of black American economic and educational achievement in the post-civil-rights era has been ambiguous—great success mixed with shocking failure. Myriad explanations for the failure have been advanced, but the account that attributes it to the limited mental abilities of blacks is singular in its suggestion that we must learn to live with current racial disparities....
The question now on the floor, in the minds of blacks as well as whites, is whether blacks are capable of gaining equal status, given equality of opportunity. It is a peculiar mind that fails to fathom how poisonous a question this is for our democracy. Let me state my unequivocal belief that blacks are, indeed, so capable. Still, any assertion of equal black capacity is a hypothesis or an axiom, not a fact. The fact is that blacks have something to prove, to ourselves and to what W. E. B. Du Bois once characterized as "a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity." This is not fair; it is not right; but it is the way things are.
OldBoring wrote:Does the Literature thread include language courses?
OldBoring wrote:Does the Literature thread include language courses?
That was my first thought, but the fact you're not sure of that made me think. Did they dictatorship felt ashamed of itself (improbable) or it was "humiliated" by someone? I'm also not sure what would be a good translation.vijayjohn wrote:A Ditadura Envergonhada, Elio Gaspari's first volume on the Brazilian military dictatorship (I'm not quite sure how to translate the title. "The Ashamed Dictatorship"?)
vijayjohn wrote:ビルマの竪琴 (there were a lot of Japanese novels in Half-Price Books this time around, but this one particularly caught my attention because my grandfather spent most of World War II working for the Japanese in Burma)
Osias wrote:That was my first thought, but the fact you're not sure of that made me think. Did they dictatorship felt ashamed of itself (improbable) or it was "humiliated" by someone? I'm also not sure what would be a good translation.vijayjohn wrote:A Ditadura Envergonhada, Elio Gaspari's first volume on the Brazilian military dictatorship (I'm not quite sure how to translate the title. "The Ashamed Dictatorship"?)
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