“Decency” and Genocide

Some thoughts on moral and intellectual perversion

If you translate the English word “decent” into German, the result is “anständig.” Likewise, the German word for “decency” is “Anstand” or, sometimes, “Anständigkeit.” The reason why I – a speaker of both English and German – have had to think of this fact is the speech given by the comedian Colin Jost at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinn…