Episode 6: Living Through History
We have been captivated by Black Lives Matters protests of the past two weeks, which started in the USA and have quickly spread across the world. In this episode, Chloe and Emma talk about the toppling of statues of imperialists, slave traders and white supremacists in Britain and the USA, comparisons with German history and the remembrance of Germany’s Nazi past, and return to a question they’ve asked before on the podcast: is Trump’s America fascist?
LinksBarely Gettin' By Season 1, Barely Gettin' Fascism, Parts 1 and 2: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/barely-gettin-fascism-part-1/id1478594339?i=1000453795264 and https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/barely-gettin-fascism-part-2/id1478594339?i=1000454260342
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James Watts, ‘Edward Colston statue toppled: how Bristol came to see the slave trader as a hero and philanthropist’, The Conversation, 9 June 2020, https://theconversation.com/edward-colston-statue-toppled-how-bristol-came-to-see-the-slave-trader-as-a-hero-and-philanthropist-140271
Samuel Moyn, ‘The trouble with comparison’, New York Review of Books, 19 May 2020, https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2020/05/19/the-trouble-with-comparisons/
Susan Nieman, ‘There Are No Nostalgic Nazi Memorials’, The Atlantic, 14 September 2019, https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/09/germany-has-no-nazi-memorials/597937/
Jasmine Aguilera, ‘Confederate Statues Are Being Removed Amid Protests Over George Floyd's Death. Here's What to Know’, Time, 10 June 2020, https://time.com/5849184/confederate-statues-removed/https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/05/this-day-in-politics-may-5-1985-565776
Paul Daley, ‘Statues are not history. Here are six in Australia that need rethinking’, Guardian, 25 August 2017, https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/postcolonial-blog/2017/aug/25/statues-are-not-history-here-are-six-in-australia-that-need-rethinking
Heather Cox Richardson, How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America, Oxford University Press, 2020, https://global.oup.com/academic/product/how-the-south-won-the-civil-war-9780190900908?cc=us&lang=en&#
Adam Weinstein, “This is Fascism,” The New Republic, 2 June 2020, https://newrepublic.com/article/157949/fascism-america-trump-anti-police-george-floyd-protests?utm_content=buffer39854&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
Cornel West, “A boot is crushing the neck of American democracy,” The Guardian, 1 June 2020, https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/01/george-floyd-protests-cornel-west-american-democracy

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