Laten verrekken of verdrinken van mensen heet “opvang in eigen regio”
Antisemitisme noemen we “vóór Israël” zijn
Een hekel aan de buren hebben noemen we “”multicultureel drama”
Nooit een moslim tegenkomen en er voortdurend over schelden noemen we “islamkritiek” of “vrijheid van meningsuiting”
Fascisme nieuwe stijl heet individualisme, want fascisme was socialistisch-collectivistisch
Het is allemaal niet zo nieuw als het lijkt, en het is al decennia geleden begonnen.
The killers of Kigali
must be sanitary workers
the butchers of Butare
must be sanitary workers
the savages of Shatila
must be sanitary workers
the beasts of Bosnia
must be sanitary workers
in the new world order.
Like a dirty old bandage
on the festering face of humanity
the old order unravels and reveals
(an) old scar that just breaks out into a new sore
a primitive wound that time won’t heal
and in the ancient currency of blood
tribal tyrants settle the score.
The killers of Kigali
must be sanitary workers
the butchers of Butare
must be sanitary workers
the savages of Shatila
must be sanitary workers
the beasts of Bosnia
must be sanitary workers
in the new world order.
And it’s the same old Cain and Abel syndrome
far more ancient than the fall of Rome
but in the new world order an atrocity
is a brand new language of barbarity.
Mass murder, normalized
program, rationalized
genocide, sanitized
and the ancient clan sin
now name (it) ethnic cleansing.
And so…
the killers of Kigali
must be sanitary workers
the butchers of Butare
must be sanitary workers
the savages of Shatila
must be sanitary workers
the beasts of Bosnia
must be sanitary workers
in the new world order
pra-pram-pram
in the new world order.
New wor(l)d order, Linton Kwesi Johnson, 2000.
