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When
you hear the following words by a University deputy rector, there is
no doubt, anymore, about where things go:
“We
who have positions in power should be 'fascistized'. I
don't see how the Greeks can change otherwise. When you overreact,
you should get a slap on the face and calm down, as it happens in
Germany, Canada, Australia and all the serious countries of the
world. We can't vote for laws and not follow them."
(http://www.thepressproject.gr/article/69574/Antiprutanis-APTh-Prepei-na-fasistopoiithoume-Na-tros-mia-sfaliara-gia-na-summazeuesai)
The
symbolism is very powerful. The traditional factor of resistance
against authoritarianism, which is the student community and youth
must be dealt through "preventive suppression" prior to the
new extreme measures against the majority, according to the timeline
of the Greek experiment.
There
is no time, or reason, for someone to hide behind moderate
expressions. The message must be clear and direct. A member of the
academic community speaks directly about the "fascistization"
of power and "slap on the face" of a society, being systematically impoverished. Current conditions do not allow the
"luxury" to an academic retain his language to a certain
level, because the objective goal is finally the "slap",
the punishment, the suppression.
The
creation of a "serious" society through culture, education
and way of behaving becomes unnecessary, and the picture of a man
from the academic community who speaks through a fascist way, becomes
something of little importance.
The
statement belongs to professor Ioannis Tzifopoulos, was made in a
local TV channel discussion and revealed by a group of philosophy
students. After the revelation, Tzifopoulos resigned as deputy rector
of Thessaloniki's Aristotle
University.(http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite1_1_25/11/2014_544901)
Despite
his resignation, also after the reaction of the Students' Association
of Philology of Thessaloniki's Aristotle University, the specific
statement is of particular "importance" for someone to
understand the plans for our future by a system that is driven
increasingly faster towards extreme authoritarianism.
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