Nothing is surprising, nothing is shocking. The situation is
evolving as expected.
A man my age got stabbed after being targeted and chased by members
of the Golden Dawn. A woman, probably his girlfriend, was holding him as they
waited for an ambulance. He didn’t make it, the man who stabbed him knew where
to strike. It could have been my boyfriend, it could have been me watching him
bleed to death.
Still, nothing surprising, nothing shocking.
Contrary to what many people would like to think, this wasn’t
a random act of violence. The victim, who was a rapper, was quite vocal about
his political affiliations. It wasn’t only a body that was slain, a voice was
also silenced.
We all kind of waited for it to happen, now it has, now
everyone is condemning the act, “Golden Dawn is a threat to our democratic
system” and other such nauseating statements from different party leaders. Our
politicians are a threat to our democratic system. Golden Dawn is a threat to our
society, to our humanity, to you and to me.
Now we don’t joke with my friends anymore, that we should
keep our voices down, in case a neo-nazi prick hears us and rings his gang of
thugs to come and beat us up. We still read all the articles that appear on our
facebook page from all the news sites we’re subscribed to. We ‘like’ them, we ‘share’
them. But now when we speak, we keep our voices down. And every now and then, we
do look over our shoulders. And I wish this was an exaggeration.
How can this situation be reversed without violence? Without
retaliation? When we live in this splendid breeding ground for polarization and
hate? When ignorance and basic instincts rule? When it is now socially
acceptable to declare yourself a fascist?
It can’t.
