°Συμμαχία Σε Εθνικισμό και Ομοφοβία
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Snippet from the Open Assembly of Solidarity, written for the action in Athens in support of Belgrade Pride. (More here on Belgrade Pride)
The ideology of ethnicity, of racial purity and supremacy, arms the violence against anyone who does not conform to nationalist dogma. Those who do not align themselves with the vision of nationalism are attacked because their life-practices refuse to reproduce the values responsible for the structuring of an ethnic identity. For us this is of course a very familiar characteristic of greek society, where institutions like religion and the nuclear family support ‘national [racial] coherence’. Identities like the ‘good patriot’, the ‘faithful orthodox’, the ‘greek mother’ and the ‘virile man’ are constructed according to institutional and social mandates and it is these that safeguard social norms. [translation from emailists modified, *above image from Belgrade Pride 2001 footage.]
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