it's here. I want to borrow a bit from further down, because it's worth putting out there on its own:
Mass movements can rise and spread
without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil. Usually
the strength of a mass movement is proportionate to the vividness and
tangibility of its devil. When Hitler was asked whether he thought the
Jew must be destroyed, he answered: "No.... We should have then to
invent him. It is essential to have a tangible enemy, not merely an
abstract one." F.A. Voigt tells of a Japanese mission that arrived in
Berlin in 1932 to study the National Socialist movement. Voigt asked a
member of the mission what he thought of the movement. He replied: "It
is magnificent. I wish we could have something like it in Japan, only we
can't, because we haven't got any Jews."
2 comments:
Maybe the Japanese didn't have Jews to disrespect. But they did and still do have Koreans and even their own Burakumin caste.
Apparently they weren't sufficiently otherable to serve the purpose?
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