On ‘noble’and ‘rude’ souls

My friend and Kathimerini commentator Takis Theodoropoulos has a point when he writes that "there is no racism in Greece, to the extent that the 'noble souls' want to present it." Things are, in fact, even worse, if we look at the big picture.

But let's start from the beginning. The "noble souls" - a term coined by Theodoropoulos in a previous opinion piece to describe anti-racists protesting over the vigilante violence against migrants in northern Greece - are not some kind of communist organization with a Stalinist homogeneity of thought. There are, of course, among them those who see racism everywhere and it's a wonder that there hasn't been a movement (yet) to depose prominent poet Kostis Palamas because he wrote "The Dodecalogue of the Gypsy" in 1907. The frequent vandalism of his statue in central Athens must be attributed to a mixture of ignorance and hooliganism, and...