…I say this because I keep seeing starry-eyed platitudes about my dad’s generation fighting fascism. What they did was remarkable, but…
If you are a Bengali being intentionally starved by a ‘great man’ to save some whiter faces, or in the Punjab being shot on the command of Reginald Dyer, or a Kenyan or Palestinian brutalised for being pissed off that some white fuckers stole your land, the distinction between that and fascism or eugenics doesn’t look very useful
Jonathan Schofield
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