Useless Mouths
- August 29, 2015
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- Matt
Years before moving towards explicit racial genocide, the Nazis developed the notion of ‘useless mouths’ or ‘life unworthy of life’ to justify its ‘involuntary euthanasia’ program. Theorists argued that certain categories of people were nothing but a burden on society and therefore had no ‘right’ to life. These ideas were a variant of...
The Rohingya: a suitable case for genocide?
- May 18, 2015
- by
- Matt
‘ All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood,’ declares Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Today, in the early 21st century, we live in a world in...
The EU’s ‘war on smugglers’: militarising tragedy
- April 22, 2015
- by
- Matt
Watching the response of European governments and politicians to last week’s horrific events in the Mediterranean has not been an edifying spectacle. We have seen a lot of solemn faces and a great deal of handwringing but nowhere, absolutely nowhere, has there been any official recognition that there might be a connection between the...
The resistible rise of Katie Hopkins
- April 19, 2015
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- Matt
Ok, I know I shouldn’t write about Katie Hopkins. I am aware that she is a self-seeking toxic sociopath who feeds on toxicity and says hateful things in order to get people to talk about her. Her motives for doing this are so painfully transparent they hardly bear scrutiny: she wants to...
The EU’s Dystopian Borders
- April 18, 2015
- by
- Matt
Many people, including myself, have asked how many migrant deaths in the Mediterranean Europe is prepared to tolerate before it takes serious action to try and prevent them. After the events of last week I think we have the answer. It is now becoming horribly and disturbingly clear that there may in fact...
Europe’s Migrants: let them die, God will know his own
- February 10, 2015
- by
- Matt
Even by the awful standards of Europe’s maritime borders, the deaths of 29 migrants last Sunday are a terrible testament to the continent’s collective indifference. Late last Sunday, two Italian coastguard boats picked up 105 migrants from an inflatable boat in rough seas off the Libyan coast, in which waves were as high as 8...
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