Sacco knows better than most that political chauvinists of all kinds can point to past moments of injury and humiliation to justify any current cruelty or authoritarian project—an especially powerful appeal when those historical injustices are real.
Adam Sandler‘s joke in his SNL50 musical sketch about famous artists turning out to be antisemitic bigots struck a chord, thanks to its real-world parallels.
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