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| Tuesday, May 4, 2010 10:58PM | | | | A Conversation with Ariel Dorfman | Tags: World Voices, Ariel Dorfman, Gabriel Sanders, human rights, Chile
| | | En route to work every Sunday morning I pass a house in the upstate New York town of Rotterdam where someone attaches large political banners and sometimes a U.S. flag to a fence that borders I-890. This past Sunday, next to the flag this person put up a white sheet imprinted with a machine gun.
The image stayed with me as I drove from Albany to the Museum of Jewish Heritage that day to see Ariel Dorfman in conversation with Tablet editor Gabriel Sanders. When Dorfman warned the audience not to assume that what happened in Chile on September 11, 1973 couldn’t happen here, I knew the machine gun and the flag needed to begin this essay.
Violent authoritarian rhetoric and imagery grows... | | | | | |
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