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to non-European peoples; that they have cultivated that Nazism, that they are responsible for it, and that before engulfing the whole edifice of Western, Christian civilization in its reddened waters, it oozes, seeps, and trickles from every crack.”
— Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism (1950)

…that it is Nazism, yes, but that before they were its victims, they were its accomplices; that they tolerated that Nazism before it was inflicted on them, that they absolved it, shut their eyes to it, legitimised it, because, until then, it had been applied only …

People are surprised, they become indignant. They say: "How strange! But never mind—it's Nazism, it will pass!" And they wait, and they hope; and they hide the truth from themselves, that it is barbarism, the supreme barbarism, the crowning barbarism that sums up all the daily barbarisms;…

ONE DAY, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late to hold anyone accountable, EVERYONE WILL HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AGAINST THIS.

Omar El Akkad

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