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David Gelernter: Appeasement & Selbsthaß

Once upon a time we thought of appeasement as a particular approach to Hitler. We have long since come to see that it is a Weltanschauung, an entire philosophical worldview that teaches the blood-guilt of Western man, the moral bankruptcy of the West, and the outrageousness of Western civilization’s attempting to impose its values on anyone else. World War II and its aftermath clouded the issue, but self-hatred has long since reestablished itself as a dominant force in Europe and (less often and not yet decisively) the United States.

Aus dem 2002 publizierten Artikel „The Roots of European Appeasement“.

Der Bildungsauftrag öffentlich-rechtlicher Medien in historischer Perspektive
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Der Bildungsauftrag öffentlich-rechtlicher Medien in historischer Perspektive

Als Winston Churchill ’störte‘. Milton Friedman:

From 1933 to the outbreak of World War II, Churchill was not permitted to talk over the British radio, which was, of course, a government monopoly administered by the British Broadcasting Corporation. Here was a leading citizen of his country, a Member of Parliament, a former cabinet minister, a man who was desperately trying by every device possible to persuade his countrymen to take steps to ward off the menace of Hitler’s Germany. He was not permitted to talk over the radio to the British people because the BBC was a government monopoly and his position was too „controversial“.

(Capitalism and Freedom, Chicago 2002, S. 19.)