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Hannah Arendt’s ”The Origins of Totalitarianism” (Part 4/6)

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Anti-Semitism and the Pan Movements Focus on Jewish People

The pan movements focus on jewish people was an example of projection, because they used the idea of jewish rootlessness to justify their own rootlessness. So in a sense, anti semetism at this point was kind of motivated by jealousy. And so the state was subordinated to nationalism and subordinated to mob rule. In a lot of cases were tribalism and racism. What they ultimately do is separate people and make people irresponsible for the actions of others.

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