Genocide is codified by the notion of historical debt and thus becomes cultural heritage, and more precisely the moral heritage of a creditor of debt. The ideological, eminently colonial position, of transforming all extermination into an epiphenomenon of inexorable extinction implies depoliticizing historical violence. In this way, the -always- singular fact of a violence is translated into the plane of a universal equivalence (the plane of the Reason with capital letter) by which Humanity (also with capital letter), like a storekeeper of History, can realize the balance of costs and benefits at the end of the day.
Menard, A. (2017). Extermination as heritage. Revista Chilena De Antropología, (36), 335–343. Retrieved from https://rej.uchile.cl/index.php/RCA/article/view/47498
