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I entered the USA the last time in 2016. Since then, I am boycotting travel there, don’t attend academic events and don’t pay fees to academic associations which represent my discipline and which I used to respect. 1/8 
(I have continued to submit my writing to American journals, which I am rethinking after having watched Trump showing up in Kenosha). This has been a conscious decision. I cannot support or work in the most powerful country of the world whose people elected and support 2/8
an autocratic and inhuman leader like Trump. I can't work in academia where the outcry & effective protest is so muffled while works on history are produced that continue to emphasise America’s superiority & righteousness while exoticising the brutality of others as curious, 3/8
bewildering or somehow interesting acts. As a German, American colleagues have often asked me how something like the Holocaust was possible and how I relate to it. Look at your country: this is how it was possible! Ordinary people believing, truly believing, that the lives 4/8
of others are worthless, are polluting not only the gene pool but also social life and stability, are dispensable. Ordinary people like your neighbours, your colleagues, your hairdresser, and, yes, your friends. Also in Germany, academics just went on and on and on producing, 5/8
thinking, experimenting while the genocidal and racist machine was grinding… they could do so effectively until others boycotted working with them, withholding resources, and denying collaboration. This is what I am doing now and will continue to do until I can hear 6/8
American academics taking a stronger stance that is, stop doing their academic work as usual, putting it to the side, quit writing their books in fancy presses in inaccessible language, and actually work in the community to turn things around. 7/8
They are living in the most powerful country of the world where Black people like Blake are shot in the back, execution style, their president refuses to say their names, & academics are not in uproar but just somehow academically stunned. I hope to return some day... 8/8
