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Comment by leobg

15 hours ago

Seems like Arendt got it wrong. She let herself be fooled by Eichmann. He wasn’t banal at all.

Bettina Stangneth, “Eichmann Before Jerusalem” (2014)

https://newcriterion.com/article/the-profundity-of-evil/

Stangneth seems like an important thinker, but wow that article hasn't aged well. Talking about the "profundity" of Hamas evil with nary a mention of Israeli genocide. You can say September 2024 was too soon to tell ... but it wasn't actually. Pure islamophobic propaganda.