Fascism and the propaganda of outrage

Frankfurt School survivors of the Holocaust provided a compelling psychoanalysis of atrocity stories.

I usually stay out of the business of trigger warnings, but this post is going to touch on some incidents that I think are deliberately inflammatory. If you don’t have the stomach for fairly dry and academic writing on violence, you may want to skip this one.

Miniature of “The Children in the Oven,” an antisemitic story from the 14th century.