In Italy, for example, it used to be common knowledge but is now all but forgotten that Hitler’s fascist partner in crime, Mussolini, exterminated the Cavernicoli, a cave-dwelling people who were still maintaining a Paleolithic culture. But the structural racism installed through Prussian-style schooling and the eugenics movement would not be discarded, merely rebranded. Later, following long civil-rights struggles and campaigns for social justice, racial inferiority was renamed “cultural difference.” Racial integration was called “reconciliation.” In the colonies, assimilation was relaunched
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