Holocaust Distortion During the Global Pandemic: An Exercise in Anti-Democratic Demagoguery

Parnell, Matthew; Stuckey, Mary E.

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“…As this article shows, and as students of Holocaust commemoration might sense immediately, the competitive comparisons in memory politics treated here under the rubric of saming have a much longer history than online doppelganging. Indeed, the longstanding problem of distortionary Holocaust comparison and the more recent phenomenon of online doppelganging fused during the COVID-19 pandemic, as far-right opponents of public-health measures shared memes about "Faucism" or declared of their lockdown experiences, "I know how Anne Frank felt" (Parnell and Stuckey 2023). 2 Saming is a troubling and sometimes desperate mnemonic strategy.…”

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Corrosive Comparisons and the Memory Politics of “Saming”: Threat and Opportunity in the Age of Apology

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2024

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This article contributes to the interdisciplinary fields of memory and historical justice studies by analyzing one, particularly troublesome kind of competitive comparison that sometimes happens in memory politics in the so-called age of apology. The article calls this kind of competitive comparison, “saming”. Saming involves the attempt, via far-fetched or otherwise wrongheaded comparison, to exploit the recognition of some well-known case of historical injustice. Further, saming involves pursuing this comparison in ways that both trivialize the original injustice and undermine the framework from which the recognition of that injustice derives. The article develops its arguments and analysis by studying Budapest’s House of Terror museum and two Canadian redress campaigns, which sought historical recognition for the wartime internments of persons of Italian and Ukrainian ancestry, respectively. Saming is a recurrent problem, ubiquitous and probably inevitable in memory politics because the recognition of historical injustice brings with it unavoidable and indeed often valuable incentives to comparison. Thus, the overall aim of this article is to analyze the threat of saming in order to better defend the cause of comparison in introspective collective remembrance.

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Corrosive Comparisons and the Memory Politics of “Saming”: Threat and Opportunity in the Age of Apology

James

2024

Social Sciences

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Holocaust Distortion During the Global Pandemic: An Exercise in Anti-Democratic Demagoguery

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Corrosive Comparisons and the Memory Politics of “Saming”: Threat and Opportunity in the Age of Apology

Corrosive Comparisons and the Memory Politics of “Saming”: Threat and Opportunity in the Age of Apology

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