Hallo Taurec,

zum Geist des westlichen Liberalkapitalismus hätte ich zwei Informationen, die Dich und BBouvier vielleicht interessieren werden:

Manchester University students paint over Rudyard Kipling mural
Students replace poem If by ‘well-known racist’ with Maya Angelou’s Still I Rise

Students at the University of Manchester have painted over a mural of a poem by Rudyard Kipling, arguing that the writer “dehumanised people of colour”.

The poem If, which was written around 1895, had been painted on the wall of the university’s newly refurbished students’ union. But students painted over the verses, replacing them with the 1978 poem Still I Rise by theUS poet and civil rights activist Maya Angelou.

In a statement on Facebook, Sara Khan, the union’s liberation and access officer, said students had not been consulted about the art that would decorate the union building.

“We, as an exec team, believe that Kipling stands for the opposite of liberation, empowerment and human rights – the things that we, as an SU, stand for,” she said.

“Well known as author of the racist poem The White Man’s Burden, and a plethora of other work that sought to legitimate the British empire’s presence in India and dehumanise people of colour, it is deeply inappropriate to promote the work of Kipling in our SU, which is named after prominent South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko.”
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The White Man’s Burden, written in 1899 during the Philippine–American war, encourages the US to assume colonial control of the country.

Khan said the decision to paint over the mural was “a statement on the reclamation of history by those who have been oppressed by the likes of Kipling for so many centuries, and continue to be to this day”.

=> Gilt für alle Völker, Deutsche aber nicht, obwohl the western World gerade an denen unerhört viel gutzumachen hätte.

Janet Montefiore, a professor emeritus at the University of Kent and editor of the Kipling Journal, said the students should have been consulted about the mural as it was “their wall” but that the decision to paint over the poem was “a bit OTT”.

“Of course he was a racist. Of course he was an imperialist, but that’s not all he was and it seems to me a pity to say so,” she said. Montefiore argued that Kipling was “a magical storyteller” and that his perspective was part of history. “You don’t want to pretend that it all didn’t happen,” she said.

“Dickens said dreadful things about black people in the Jamaica rebellion. Does that mean you don’t read Dickens?”

She added: “If is not a racist poem. It’s a poem of good advice. I don’t personally like [the poem] but it has meant a great deal to a lot of people.” Montefiore invited Khan to write a piece for the Kipling Journal, setting out her opposition to the writer.

Amit Chaudhuri, author and professor of contemporary literature at the University of East Anglia, said Kipling was “a compelling and very, very gifted writer” who “clearly had racist prejudices”.
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https://www.theguardian.com/education/2018/jul/19/manchester-university-students-paint-...

2011 fand im Pariser Centre Pompidou ein Kolloquium über Louis-Ferdinand Céline statt, das eher ein Tribunal gewesen ist, und sie ihm vorgeworfen haben, schon mit dem Titel *Bagatelles pour un massacre* die kommende Judenausrottung propagiert zu haben.

Tatsächlich ist genau das Gegenteil der Fall. Céline wollte 1937 vor dem kommenden Krieg warnen und den Massakern an arischen Europäern. (Der Ausdruck Arier wird bereits 1886 von Edouard Drumont verwendet.

Veranstaltungen, bei denen es um Dr. Ferdinand Destouches geht, sind für Prof. Robert Faurisson natürlich Pflichttermine.

Die frechen Lügen über seinen Lieblingsautor wollte er nicht unwidersprochen stehen lassen. Er meldet sich also zu Wort, und was passiert?

Sie stellen ihm das Mikrolphon ab, obwohl es um Literatur, den vielleicht größten Schriftsteller des 20. Jahrhunderts ging, nicht etwa Faurissons revisionistische Thesen.

Tempranillo

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*Die Demokratie bildet die spanische Wand, hinter der sie ihre Ausbeutungsmethode verbergen, und in ihr finden sie das beste Verteidigungsmittel gegen eine etwaige Empörung des Volkes*, (Francis Delaisi).