Freedom for some but not for others
Jenny Erpenbeck:
Why did people always pronounce the word ‘freedom’ with such enthusiasm, as they continue to do today, whenever they speak of the collapse of East Germany, whereas when people from other countries — from countries like Mali, Niger, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Mexico, Haiti, and other “shitholes,” as Donald Trump recently described them — they’re met with contempt and aversion?
Not a Novel: A Memoir in Pieces, pp 174f
