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Non fascist = race traitor.
The dudes who did that before want to do it again.
Also watch out for people who say things like race traitor.
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And it's also clear that when certain communities are being talked about in a way that reminds me of the most dark time in the 20th century, at some point people will talk in the same way about Jews. For me it was clear from the start: When they're talking about Moroccans, they also mean me.
"I cannot understand, cannot endure that a man is not judged for who he is, but for the group they are a part of.", Primo Levi writes in the sixties to his German translator. Words that we should repeat weekly, even daily, if just to remind us how toxic words can be.
A Dutchman having to pour kerosene over women and children in Auschwitz started with words, with speeches by politicians.
Especially in these secularised times, a special responsibility lies with those in power. To lead by example, to not let words become poison, to always keep in mind that the state is necessary but also a potential evil that could destroy people with careless abandon.
The woman who threw her child in the face of Oberscharführer Voss, she warns us.
The Dutchman who yelled "Nee! Nee!", who refused to pour kerosene over living women and children and was kicked into the inferno, he warns us.
This part is really the essence of his speech. Most right wingers were triggered over him even mentioning Moroccans, and created the strawman that he equivocates the discrimination Moroccans experience with the experience of Jews during the Holocaust. Which of course entirely misses the point. Grunberg is simply fearful that the same people who now happily rail against Moroccans, will not be remembering the past when another loudmouth starts yapping about the Jews. You already see the dogwhistling online with the retarded triple brackets. We are warned by the past.
-edit- Some even accuse him of politicizing the Holocaust. I have no clue how these people managed to finish high school.
This post was edited by balrog66 on May 5 2020 07:52am