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Analogies Fail Without Historical Literacy
- Historical analogies are only persuasive when listeners share the same knowledge, so Nazi comparisons often miss their mark.
- Dorian Lynskey argues Britain and the US' refugee refusals better mirror 1930s Allied policies than Nazi Germany itself.
Defaulting To Nazis In Moral Arguments
- Dorian Lynskey recounts people's instinct to use the Nazis as a default moral cudgel in modern debates.
- He says that reference often masks other relevant comparisons, like the Evian conference or US refugee refusals.
Refugee Law Born From Allied Failures
- The moral failure to refuse refugees in the 1930s influenced the 1951 Refugee Convention.
- Lynskey ties current UK asylum policy to those historical refusals rather than to Nazi extermination policy.