Jun 26, 2021 • 6M

Juneteenth, censored

How memory laws prepare us for authoritarianism

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Timothy Snyder
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Americans are not really prepared for memory laws, and they are coming fast. You do not have to control the past to control the future; you just need to block the past to prevent people from becomes citizens who want to take their own bit of responsibility for what comes next. A longer article about this is coming in the New York Times Magazine on 4 J…

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