Tuesday, February 14, 2006
Caring About Equality
"I am convinced that if republican or Catholic France were still at war with Algeria--repressing, interning, and killing Arabs as the state of Israel is doing in Palestine--today's United States, differentialist, inegalitarian, and wracked by its own bad conscience--would side with this colonial France that had abandoned its universalism. There is nothing more reassuring for those who have given up on justice than to see others behaving unjustly....
The incapacity of the United States to see Arabs as other human beings is consistent with the ebbing of universalism within American society."
--from After The Empire by Emmanuel Todd
The incapacity of the United States to see Arabs as other human beings is consistent with the ebbing of universalism within American society."
--from After The Empire by Emmanuel Todd
