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The media and the rest of popular culture weren't recording people's reactions to 9/11 they were forcing made-up reactions down people's throats.
Susan Faludi
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Susan Faludi
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: April 18
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Instead of confronting its real and difficult problems and grappling honestly with a dark past, Hungary embraced a reactionary government and a self-pitying image of itself as the victimized nation, and went looking for scapegoats in the Roma, Jews, and, most recently, Syrian migrants.
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Hungary is now on the brink of becoming a neo-fascist state.
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