[lbo-talk] Enzo Traverso: The Hate Factory: Xenophobia and Racism in Europe

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Jul 27 13:55:40 PDT 2011


On Jul 27, 2011, at 4:46 PM, Ferenc Molnar wrote:


> I'm glad Traverso mentions Pym Fortuyn whose openly gay identity appeared to attract rather than repel supporters of his xenophobic platform.

I interviewed Gore Vidal an hour or two after Fortuyn was killed. Vidal's first reaction: "probably a homophobe." When I said, probably not, Vidal expressed sympathy for Fortuyn's POV about "protecting" liberal Europe from the illiberals.

Doug



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