""Die Wahrheit ist, dass Mozart, Pascal, Boolesche Algebra, Shakespeare, parlamentarische Regierungsform, Barockkirchen, Newton, die Emanzipation der Frauen, Kant, Marx und die Ballette Balanchines nicht wiedergutmachen, was diese besondere Zivilisation ĂĽber die Welt gebracht hat. Die weiĂźe Rasse ist der Krebs der Menschheitsgeschichte." ("The truth is that Mozart, Pascal, Boolean Algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Marx, and Balanchine ballets don't redeem what this particular civilization has wrought upon the world. The white race is the cancer of human history.")"
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Partisan Review (Winter 1967), p. 57 Notes on Susan, The New York Review of Books, Eliot Weinberger, 2007
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