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When I hear calls for accountability like this, I wonder if anyone else hears a patronizing subtext: “we are the only ones who act, others are merely acted upon
by AbrahamParangi 4y ago
When I hear calls for accountability like this, I wonder if anyone else hears a patronizing subtext: “we are the only ones who act, others are merely acted upon”
- 082349872349872 4y agoThe distinction between actors and those being acted upon was used in anti-Caesar propaganda ("Bithynica regina"); no doubt its subtext was ancient even then. (I understand your main point: murderers are obviously more guilty than inciters, who tend to be termed complicit. However, The Grauniad's circulation is brit, so I can understand a parochial focus on british guilt; if this article had been published by Kompas I might have read it with far less charity on the subtext.)