Peter Sloterdijk vs. Jurgen Habermas: A Society ofAcademicSpectacles?

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Tue Oct 19 09:33:30 PDT 1999


Johannes Schneider wrote:


> In his acceptance speech he complained, that the holocaust is
> still remembered publicly in Germany. ( OK, thats a little bit polemical ).
> In the end his speech could be summed up by saying that the Germans will
> never forgive the Jews because of the holocaust.

This throws important light on the material grounds of racist ideology. It is in fact much easier for the wronged to forgive those who wronged them than it is for the latter to forgive the former. The rising racist tide in the U.S. over the last two decades can be partly explained by whites being unable to forgive blacks for allowing whites to oppress them.

Carrol



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