Anerkannt als Mensch, eben Mensch
Brecht hat es bereits 1940 erkannt: „Der Hass, selbst auf Gemeinheit / Verzieht die Züge. / Der Zorn, selbst gegen Unrecht / Macht die Stimme heiser. O, / Wir, die wir den Boden für Freundschaft bereiten wollten / Konnten selbst nicht freundlich sein.“ Diese dunklen Zeiten haben sich
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“Recognized As Human, Levelly Human”
Image Source: Cover art for the book Cancelled: The Left Way Back from Woke by Umut Ozkirimli A Review of Umut Özkırımlı, 2023, Cancelled: The Left Way Back from Woke (Polity) Brecht saw it in 1940. “Hatred, even of meanness / Contorts the features. / Anger, even against injustice / Makes the voice hoarse. O, / We who wanted to prepare the ground for friendship / Could not ourselves be friendly.” Those dark times led Brecht to ask, “What kind of times are these, when / To talk about trees is almost a crime / Because it implies silence about so many horrors?” His times were bad enough, but they’ve got much worse in the last 83 years. Talking about
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