Quote of the week
[T]he moral point of the matter is never reached by calling what happened by the name of ‘genocide’ or by counting the many millions of victims: extermination of whole peoples had happened before in antiquity, as well as in modern colonization. It is reached only when we realize this happened within the frame of a legal order and that the cornerstone of this ‘new law’ consisted of the command ‘Thou shall kill,’ not thy enemy but innocent people who were not even potentially dangerous, and not for any reason of necessity but, on the contrary, even against all military and other utilitarian calculations. … And these deeds were not committed by outlaws, monsters, or raving sadists, but by the most respected members of respectable society.
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on The Banality of Evil
“These queer gardens: a South African story” (with Jaco Barnard-Naude) vol. 46 (2014) Acta Academica 134-150.
Queer Gardens
“Disturbing heteronormativity: the ‘queer’ jurisprudence of justice Albie Sachs” (with Jaco Barnard-Naude) South African Public Law (2010) 209-234
Distrubing heteronormativity
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