Why am I hearing "very fine people on both sides!"? here:...

Why am I hearing "very fine people on both sides!"? here: Robert Knight: Letters �� LRB: Globalists: "Alexander Zevin writes that Friedrich Hayek opposed the use of sanctions against apartheid, and ���confided to his secretary that he liked blacks no better than Jews��� (LRB, 15 August). The antisemitic antecedents of National Socialism are conspicuous by their absence in The Road to Serfdom; if we assume the manuscript was completed in 1943, it almost completely ignores a decade of antisemitic persecution and four years of Nazi war crimes and atrocities. In the Spectator in January 1947 Hayek attacked the ���blunders��� of denazification in Austria, including the suspension of violinists from the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra because they had been Nazi party members. It was, he wrote, ���scarcely easier to justify the prevention of a person from fiddling because he was a Nazi than the prevention because he is a Jew���...

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