The pseudonym "Philo Vaihinger" has been abandoned. All posts have been and are written by me, Joseph Auclair.

Saturday, March 28, 2015

Never a kind word for those hated by the left

One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway by Åsne Seierstad – review

Yesterday on BBC radio I listened to a remarkably hostile interview.

Not angry, not rude, the skilled female interviewer nevertheless badgered Asne Seierstad quite skilfully for reporting Breivik's horrible childhood and tormented adolescence in such a way as to call for compassion.

What? Compassion for such a fiend? How could she depict this man in such a way?

Seierstard never lost her cool and the interview as a whole was excellent and well worth listening to.

Ian Buruma's review is in that vein, missing no occasion to attack, vilify, belittle, disrespect, mock, and damn Breivik.

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