German Colonial Amnesia and the Destruction of Gaza

Aimé Césaire states in his Discourse on Colonialism that colonialism decivilizes the colonizer, brutalizes him, degrades him, “to awaken him to buried instinct, to covetous violence, race hatred, and moral relativism” as “universal regression” (p. 35). As Césaire observes: “the colonizer, who in order to ease his conscience gets into the habit of seeing the other man as an [...]