Firing Sean Spicer wouldn’t answer the deeper question of why the Trump administration fails to speak out forcefully against racism and anti-Semitism, writes Ruth Ben-Ghiat
Ruth Ben-Ghiat is a frequent contributor to CNN Opinion, and professor of history and Italian studies at New York University. Her latest book is «Italian Fascism’s Empire Cinema. » The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the author.
(CNN) We should all be grateful to White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer. Attempting to make Syrian President Bashar al-Assad history’s biggest villain, he stated Tuesday that Hitler «didn’t even sink to using chemical weapons,» a remark that’s been interpreted by many as denying the Nazis’ genocide of Jews in extermination camps during World War II — camps which Spicer referred to, bizarrely, as «Holocaust centers. »
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