We speak about colonialism, about the extermination of native peoples, about the enslavement of black people as if all of this was history, as if Europe had learned its lesson, as if it now strived to stand up for humanity, equality and the good in the world.
Neither colonialism, nor the enslavement or extermination of people(s) is history. It is very much present. Europeans are still the real barbarians, even though we’d like to think of us as better than this. But blinded by our supposed superiority, we continue to subject “the other . . .
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