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We all know what happen. #Arestovych does not matter. Here is what matter.
Only people jumping to use this foolishness are who?
Russians
Why are they excitedly using this in propaganda?
To absolve themselves to world even though they know and we know what happen.
Only people jumping to use this foolishness are who?
Russians
Why are they excitedly using this in propaganda?
To absolve themselves to world even though they know and we know what happen.
So why is this important? Because it shows that Russia is willing to lie and cover up its crimes even as they complain that criticism of them is Russophobia. It’s not Putin spreading this all over social media. It’s Russians. 
This is why we can’t lose perspective about guilt for this genocide. Nothing will change because this is Russia. This has always been Russia. This will always be Russia.
1. What is collective guilt? It’s guilt that is shared by group of people for crimes so depraved that not stopping them is itself crime. Every generation in my family has person who contains memories of past because such crimes have happen to us for over 100 years.
2. I am this person now for this generation. I remember for them. I know every crime, when it happen, where, how. All of it. Germany had barbarism and savagery for how long? And did they ever after WWII? No. Why? Collective guilt.
3. Russia’s role in WWII, #Holocaust is entirely erased from history. They did get lands they wanted but not guilt. History begins in 1942, Russia is hero. That’s not fact. Not for anything my family suffer.
In 1903 Russia wrote this masterpiece of evil that they use to commit
In 1903 Russia wrote this masterpiece of evil that they use to commit
A question: Are ancestral guilt and collective guilt fundamentally liberal and tolerant subjects? Can people (“we”) be guilty for sins (“torture”) committed centuries ago (“past”) by people who look like us?
Trying to understand the scholar's reasoning (I did read the book twice):
1. All white people have anti-blackness;
2. That anti-blacknesss comes from our feelings of deep guilt.
3. That guilt is based on our complicity in things other people (either our ancestors or . . .
1. All white people have anti-blackness;
2. That anti-blacknesss comes from our feelings of deep guilt.
3. That guilt is based on our complicity in things other people (either our ancestors or . . .
people who looked like us) did that we now consider morally wrong;
4. That knowledge (in our complicity int those actions) is unbearable for us;
5. To deflect that unbearable knowledge we develop anti-blackness (a sort of psychological defense mechanism).
Do I have that right?
4. That knowledge (in our complicity int those actions) is unbearable for us;
5. To deflect that unbearable knowledge we develop anti-blackness (a sort of psychological defense mechanism).
Do I have that right?
My piece on the despicable propaganda advanced by @EmmanuelMacron when,in a letter published in a British outlet,he used #eugenics parlance to describe underfunded suburbs full of #Muslims as “breeding grounds for terrorists in #France”. #Islamophobia @FT
independent.co.uk/voices/batacla…
independent.co.uk/voices/batacla…
Delivering lines straight out of a Trump #fakenews generator,@EmmanuelMacron claimed,w/out any evidence whatsoever,that there are “districts where small girls aged 3or4 are wearing a #fullveil,separated from boys [..] & the rest of society,raised in hatred of France’s values”.@FT
Never mind that forcing someone to wear a #burqa is an imprisonable crime in #France,as is child abuse & radicalising minors.Bizarrely,in an era when cameras are everywhere,there were no images to back up @EmmanuelMacron's words abt these infant sociopaths.0 prosecutions too. @FT
