Each person shares responsibility for every injustice committed in his presence

Evidence

There exists among men, because they are men, a solidarity through which each shares responsibility for every injustice and every wrong committed in the world, and especially for crimes that are committed in his presence or of which he cannot be ignorant. If I do not do whatever I can to prevent them, I am an accomplice in them. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 926

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces Jaspers’ concept of metaphysical guilt that Fanon engages.
• XREF: Connects to the reader’s interest in colonial psychological structures and bystander complicity. — connects to: Human solidarity makes every person an accomplice to injustice they do not prevent.; Citizens remain morally responsible for atrocities committed in their nation’s name.; Humility and self-awareness can prevent societal oppression. — Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life An Antidote to Chaos, 601 (+4 more)

Related

• Human solidarity makes every person an accomplice to injustice they do not prevent. (similarity 0.90)
• Shared responsibility for criminal acts binds accomplices together (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Ordinary people can commit extreme brutality under the right circumstances #qualifies (0.65) — Farrar, Straus and Giroux Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone- Memoirs of a Boy…, 1
• Humility and self-awareness can prevent societal oppression. #complicates (0.60) — Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life An Antidote to Chaos, 601