'The Politics of Hate'
Sometimes history send echoes, snatches of words, disquieting fragments of images, that snag at our memories and imaginations. Sometimes those echoes become so clear that we can follow them, and sometimes, if we have the tools and the talent and the time, we can make them public.
That’s what Michael Perlman has done in “The Politics of Hate.”
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“The Politics of Hate” starts with footage from the 1930s and 40s; as often as we might have seen some of these shots, still they are hard to look at. Strikingly, and pointedly, the clips include some film taken right after the war, in Germany; local residents were forced to walk by stacks of corpses. Some of the villagers keep talking to each other, some look away from the bodies, some look down at the ground, some are horrified, some are terrified, some are unmoved.
Mr. Perlman is not going for facile comparisons. He is not saying that the United States in 2018 (or 2017, when “Politics of Hate” first was released) is Germany in the late 1930s. He is saying, however, that the anti-Semitic lies that led to the Holocaust are the lies we can hear now.
This documentary is being released on television and streaming media in commemoration of the first anniversary of the tiki-torchlit racist and neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville, Va., that led to the death of Heather Heyer and the wounding — by car and by fist and by gang — of at least 33 others.
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