Ni kitu gani ambacho ungependa uweze kukifanya mtandaoni Tanzania. Ambacho upo tayari kulipia? Jibu chini, pia kuna mawazo ambayo yapo chini tayari, piga kura kwa ku like. Natanguliza shukrani kwa msaada wako. 🙏🏽
Hamas handed Israel 66 boxes each one containing the skull of a hostage
They then returned the bodies of female hostages cut open with their organs removed
Wait that was actually the IDF not Hamas
Let me know if you still feel as sick and enraged as you did 10 seconds ago
Here is the question that European civilization has never answered:
At what point, in the five hundred years of colonial practice, should a European person have been expected to know that what was happening was wrong?
Not 1945. That is too easy, and too convenient.
1904, when the German Empire issued a written extermination order against the Herero people and generals carried it out and soldiers followed orders and administrators recorded the deaths and the skulls were shipped to universities for racial science.
At that point, should someone have known?
1890, when the systematic amputations in the Congo were being photographed by missionaries and the photographs were being published in European newspapers and reformers were raising the alarm and Leopold II was receiving those reformers in his palace and explaining that the civilizing mission required certain difficult measures.
At that point?
1830, when the Trail of Tears was a policy debated in the United States Congress and approved by elected representatives and challenged by lawyers and litigated to the Supreme Court, which ruled against it, and then carried out anyway.
At that point?
1619?
1492?
The question matters because the defense of European civilization against the charge that the Holocaust was colonialism coming home always rests on the assumption that colonial violence was invisible, unexamined, a product of its time.
It was not invisible.
It was photographed and debated and reported and litigated.
It was chosen.
At every decision point, by specific people with names and offices and moral agency, the choice was made to continue.
The Holocaust produced Nuremberg because the victims were European and the defendants were the enemies of the victorious powers.
The colonial period produced nothing comparable because the victims were not European and the defendants were the victorious powers.
That is the only reason one has a trial and the other has a museum of natural history.
Same civilization.
Same logic.
Different documentation.
Has any country that adopted universal healthcare ever said, “You know what? This isn’t working. Let’s go back to paying insurance premiums and getting claims denied all the time.”
China in the 90s: “you guys polluted for 200 years to develop so now we get to pollute to develop”
China in the 2020s: “wait why did it take you 200 years? Here. Have the solution to climate change. What do you mean you can’t build it? You spend how much per mile on rail??”
Call me woke or whatever, but I don't think it's even vaguely reasonable to expect the literal mayor of NYC to be prohibited from attending a 9/11 memorial just because a handful of folks affected by it grew up to be malignant racists.