Ist das ein Mensch?

Guardian:

“The whole thing felt like Game of Thrones, but with the characters from Veep,” writes Sims, an Alabaman who joined the Trump campaign as co-host of a Facebook live program run by the campaign.

This sentence gnawed at me off and on through the day today. A man seeks to explain his experiences with the White House staff by saying it „felt like“ a television show about a fictional planet, with the fictional characters from another television show. This man was „co-host of a Facebook live program“. He doesn’t compare the staff of this White House with that of a previous White House, but with television shows, assuming (rightly?) that his readers will be familiar with these reference points.

Spiegel:

Als gäbe es die Filmdokumente der Lager nicht. Die Vernichtung von Jüdinnen, Roma, Sinti, Homo­sexuellen, Kranken infrage zu stellen, Witze darüber zu machen, als feister Sack an Orten des absoluten Grauens rum­zublaffen, ist das Ende der Zivilisation.

Sibylle Berg’s Spiegel column brought back to me my experiences at Auschwitz and Fossoli in November.

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