The Problem With the Over Focus on German Crimes of the Past

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Berlin has become an extraordinarily mixed place and it's the fastest growing Jewish community in Europe so including some estimated 20,000 Israelis. The focus on German crimes you know they've all learned the lesson Jews were our victims we murdered them leads people to see authentic Jewish voices as the ones who cry anti-Semitism the loudest at any occasion now this relates just two more sentences my involvement I've been very politically engaged in this in the last couple of years in Germany has also led me to think about and partly float into my thinking in left is not woke because I fear that a similar view is gaining hold in the United States.

Susan Neiman is an American philosopher and writer. She is the Director of the Einstein Forum in Potsdam, Germany, and the author of Left is Not Woke.

In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Susan Neiman discuss how liberals can uphold their universal values while maintaining a politics of empathy and compassion; how the left’s tendency to discount the progress of the past inhibits progress for the future; and whether Germany can serve as a model for how America, and other nations, should deal with the dark aspects of their own history.

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