The march of decolonizers

Julia Latynina - about who invented “collective responsibility” and why you should not be conducted for this idea

For three years of the war, how we periodically hear about the collective responsibility of the Russians for Putin and the war. Sometimes this thesis sounds in proud loneliness, but is more often accompanied by a set of others. The Russians are to blame for the fact that they did not overthrow Putin, they bear collective responsibility for the war, they are genetic imperialists - but they can improve. To fix it, you must sacrifice the Armed Forces of Ukraine, support RDK and attend decolonization courses.

I want to say responsibly: all this is not a way to describe objective reality. This is a typical technique of modern left discourse, psychological manipulation in order to create a feeling of guilt and build a sect.

There are two simple ways to check that in front of you: a way to describe reality (albeit very biased or unorthodox) or manipulation.

First: beware of concepts that historians do not meet up to a century of a celebration of mass propaganda.

Do the Romans bear collective responsibility for the fall of the Roman Republic? Are the Assyrians a collective responsibility for the destruction of the kingdom of Israel? Do the French bear collective responsibility for the terror of 1792?

And so on. For two and a half thousand years of the existence of science of history, this issue would seem to historians - from Herodotus to Mommsen - meaningless. All this time, history has been described as you like: as the actions of a particular ruler, a change in economic formations, the Providence of God. But definitely neither Tacitus, nor Fruassar, or even Friedrich Engels, you will find the concept that this “collective responsibility” of the Babylonians led to the destruction of the first temple, or the “collective responsibility” of the Romans - to the campaigns of Caesar to Gaul.

You will laugh, they do not even write about the “collective responsibility” of the Athenian People’s Assembly, which during the Peloponese War decided to betray the death of all men of the captured cities-although, strictly to this time, this time the decision really made the decision.

I did not meet a book that attributes to the campaigns “collective responsibility” for half a sweat or the Chinese - “collective responsibility” for activists who, in the villages of their same villagers for a piece of bread and the slightest inconsistency of the party’s line, were collectively scored to death, although in both of these cases the mass killings were indeed not carried out with the help of a special body like the NKVD or SS, but it was precisely what with the help of broad ones folk masses.

Search for this explanation in historical work, at least somewhat claiming to objectivity, is as pointless as to look for an explanation in Einstein’s writings why people do not fall from the flat edge of the earth.

With one exception. Namely: according to Christian propaganda, Jews were responsible for the crucifixion of Christ. They were all guilty. They all had to pay. This concept of the “collective responsibility” of the Jews then lay at the base of the pogroms. The pogroms who robbed, who killed and raped Jews, wanted to feel right. They did not want to feel like rapists. They wanted to feel like sacred Avengers. This feeling gave them the concept of the collective guilt of the Jews who crucified Christ.

The second method is also simple: the measure that you measure all nations should be the same. The holes on the ruler should be in the same place. Change the name of the nation and see if it is pressing?

Suppose someone claims:

“In Ukraine, 100 thousand Ukrainians collaborated with the Nazis and helped to kill 1.5 million Jews. Ukrainians bear collective responsibility for this. The pogroms are in their genes. They have smashed Jews since the time of Koliyvshchina. ”

Or: “90% of the 200,000th population of Lithuanian Jews were killed, and almost half of them were killed with the participation of Lithuanian volunteers from YpatingSis Būrys . So, all Lithuanians are to blame. "

Or: “Some whites once owned slaves, and some black were once slaves at the whites. Therefore, whites are of collective responsibility for slavery. They must pay reparations, even the descendants of those whites who have never owned slaves, the descendants of those blacks that have never been slaves. In general, they should apologize to the Blacks, because they destroyed the great black culture, stole all its inventions and achievements, and replaced with their toxic white culture, based on suppression and hatred. ”

Are you wild? Me too.

Why wild? For three reasons.

• Firstly, the idea of ​​collective responsibility in this case equals the righteous with a sinner. 2515 Ukrainians are among the righteous of the peoples of the world. These are people who helped save Jews. And it turns out, according to the idea of ​​“collective responsibility”, that the one who risked his life, saving a Jewish in the attic, is to blame for the same way as the one who scored another Jewish in Lviv in the eyes of the crowd. Well, what? Collective responsibility.

• Secondly, the idea of ​​“collective responsibility” implicitly assumes that you yourself are not like that. That you are better.

“Now, if I lived in the time of Genghis Khan, I would never cut the inhabitants of Bamian.” “Now, if I lived in the time of Babyeu Yar, then I would never kill Jews.” And my people would never have done this. We are elves. And they are orcs.

And this, unfortunately, is not so. Few people can predict how he will behave in terrible circumstances, under the pressure of the environment and with washed brains.

• And, thirdly, the idea of ​​collective responsibility contradicts everything fundamentally in the development of European civilization, which precisely what developed in the direction of protection of the individual and introduced the idea of ​​individual responsibility for actions. Once, in the X century, the Icelanders could be punished in a bloody feud for what the father did. But more - they cannot. And here it is even assumed that not the son is responsible for the father, but everyone is responsible for everyone.

It was assumed that you can somehow fix these circumstances. And here - nothing. Here, 250 years ago, during Koliyvshchina, your ancestor was arranged by the Jewish pogrom - and that’s all, you are already a genetic pogar.

In other words, the idea of ​​collective responsibility is Nazism. Nazism in its purest form, only Nazism, on the contrary.

Ordinary Nazism is when you directly say that some kind of nation-well, for example, Jews or Slavs, are subhuman.

Since you were born in this nation or race, since your skin is, for example, black, or slanting your eyes, then everything can be deleted from the lists of humanity, and there is no hope for you. At least jump above your head - and you are still a subhuman. Checkmate.

This is one of the most disgusting, worst ideas in the history of mankind, from which the smell of rolled blood comes and a crunch of bones is heard.

But modern ideology of this type looks different. This is a Nazism of pink ponies and white coats.

For example, he asks: "Why didn't you overthrow Putin?" Or: “Why can't you, Jewish settlers and colonialists, agree with the Palestinians?” By default, it suggests that the speaker and his pool are genes-they would certainly overthrow Putin. And they would find a common language with the Palestinians, they would have been sleeping humbly.

They, progressors, are at the highest stage of human development, like Don Rumata. And with a clear sense of moral superiority, they look at the arcanar neighboring with them.

Moreover, this approach simultaneously assumes that the one who resumes him, here he is holy. He had already overthrew Putin, reached nirvana and invented the eternal engine.

He is a bright elf. It turns out to become an elf is very easy. I just need to say that everyone else is orcs.

This is not a way of describing reality, but a psychological manipulation, which should put the object of manipulation in the position of malignant mental dependence. I am a sinner. I sinned. Holy Father, how can I get better?

At the same time, although there were no manipulations about “collective responsibility” in history (not counting the story about the responsibility of the Jews who crucified Christ), other attempts of such manipulations were. Moreover, they were very common.

The Christian church, for example, declared a carnal connection with a sin. Anyone, and already illegitimate - even more so. It was a shah and mat. With such introductory, every person living on Earth became a sinner. And if he was gay or acquired a lover or mistress, then here certainly write. Every sinner was waiting for hellish fire. But fire could be avoided, if - right, what? - repent and sacrifice the churches.

So the terrible dark building of the Middle Ages was created, where each person was to blame because he sinned.

The Communists picked up this topic. Each bourgeois was to blame for the fact that he was not born a proletariat. This was also the original sin that could be washed away only by participating in the communist movement or sacrificing the Communist Party.

In general, all sects of this kind that make a person feel like a sinner, immediately immediately offer him a way out of this state of the fall: help us. Satter those who explain to you that you are a sinner. So that they can explain this to even more people.

When communism is a little backward, modern left came up with two new varieties of this ideology.

• Firstly, each entrepreneur is sinful in that he warms up the planet. He throws CO2 into the air. He can wash away this sin only only supporting the Donat by Saint Greg Tunberg and the company.

• And, secondly, every white is to blame for the fact that he is white. He built the white patriarchal sexism - all this terrible oppressive civilization of Newton, Washington and Geisenbergs. At the same time, he destroyed the remarkable civilization of black people based on love and equality. A white person is defective by definition. He is a genetic oppressor and institutional racist.

This is his original sin. No ways to stop being a racist - no. If he says that he is not a racist, he is in a state of denial. There is only one thorny path to salvation: it is to utter on BLM and attend decolonizers courses.

In fact, as in the previous two cases, with the Church and with the Communists, before you are not a description of historical reality. Here is psychological manipulation and building a sect.

The story of the collective responsibility of the Russians who “could not overthrow Putin” is just a translation of the worst BLM samples into Russian.

Therefore, stop making excuses and seek logical arguments. They will not help you. Even any Jew has not been able to justify himself in the fact that he did not crucify Christ or in the fact that he “colonized” Palestine.

As for the National Decolonizers and Collectively Reverenders, I will answer the following.

Deeply disrespectful decolonizers!

For some reason, you-Lenin in 1917-very attracts the left project. For some reason, you again want to build a left-wing paradise, only this time it is planned to cancel not all the bourgeois, but all the colonialists.

It is fine - in this case, as befits decolonizers - start with yourself and get rid of all those lands that Ukraine got as a result of the life of Russia / USSR.

Return to Poland those lands that were rejected from it as a result of the Stalin's “Switch” of 1939. Transcarpathia for the same reason return Hungary, and Bessarabia - Moldova. After that, those lands of historical Ukraine, which in 1654 united at the Pereyaslav Rada with the insidious Moscow colonialists, that is, the territory of the Polish Kyiv, Chernihiv and Bratslavl voivodship - you can decolonize to Morkovin.

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