It’s always the other person’s fault – Documento – 2024-05-14 04:05:58

It’s a convenient line of reasoning, especially when your nest is dirty: It’s other people’s fault.

For students occupying university campuses in the US and Europe, alt-right rhetoric argues that they are being incited by Hamas terrorists, Iran and left-wing enemies of the US. But no “foreign finger” is needed. Where to think that since the world is overflowing with injustices, inequalities and crimes, such as the genocide in Gaza (formerly the war in Vietnam), the student debt loop or the absence of vision, young people are pushed into dynamic solutions to be heard and show that something is wrong and needs to change? This happened in the generation of the ’60s and in the revolutionary 1968 when young people wanted to change the world.

It’s always “other people’s fault”. The argumentation comes from afar. How many times, for example, have we not heard that the leftists are responsible for the holocausts of Kalavryta, Distomos, Ligiades and other martyred areas because, they say, they dared to fight the Nazis and took the innocent inhabitants by the throat. In other words, they tell us that the conquerors who imposed the death penalty on the collective responsibility of civilians for the military blows of the rebels are blameless. So they tell us that you won’t dare to claim your space when you are invaded – like in Ukraine, you know. After all, many followed this line of defense of the conquerors because they were friends, they did business with them.

We also hear this argument from the prime minister when bells are ringing from abroad about government misdeeds. It is not the government’s fault for the rule of law, for wiretapping, for (un)freedom of the press, etc. The inciting European Parliament, the “leftist” New York Times, the… NGO Reporters Without Borders are to blame. Where can they find a drop of self-criticism when they don’t have time to refute?