“Here’s the thing,” Robinson said. “Whether you’re talking about Adolf Hitler, whether you’re talking about Chairman Mao, whether you’re talking about Stalin, whether you’re talking about Pol Pot, whether you’re talking about Castro in Cuba, or whether you’re talking about a dozen other despots all around the globe, it is time for us to get back and start reading some of those quotes.”
This is the Lieutenant Governor of a state (North Carolina) saying we can get gems from the quotes of genocidal maniacs. This is where we are now.
I find it interesting that they are now also trying to lump in other despots we know they wouldn’t agree with, as though trying to gloss over and obfuscate their apparent ties to White Supremacist ideology.
Was there any mention of “reading their quotes” in a context of ‘how can we learn from, and not repeat the mistakes of history’?
Not even as an afterthought.