In 2015more than one million refugees of war, persecution, and poverty entered Europe and applied for asylum there. Just five years earlier the official count of asylum applicants had been much lower, closer to two hundred thousand. But over the northern summer and autumn of 2015 we heard the unprecedented numbers add up as boat after boat, all overcrowded, landed on Grecian shores and as long, almost endless lines of adults and children took to inhospitable paths into and through Hungarian hinterlands. At the same time we heard too the less-than-unprecedented response of Europe’s sometimes elected, sometimes self-appointed defenders and their claims that the incoming un-European masses presented a mortal threat to Europe’s Europeanness, to its values, its ways of life, its institutions, its political structures and its organization. Such guardians of authentic European being may most simply be expressing the often unabashedly racist ideology of today’s right nationalists, though they themselves are certainly not, for that, un-European. One could say these defenders are, even and perhaps especially when at their most virulent, confirming an

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亚里士多德的无国籍者

2015 年，超过 100 万的战争、迫害和贫困难民进入欧洲并在那里申请庇护。就在五年前，官方庇护申请者人数还少得多，接近 20 万。但在 2015 年的北部夏秋两季，我们听到空前的数字增加了，因为人满为患，都靠在希腊海岸上，成群结队的成人和儿童走上荒凉的小路，进入和穿过匈牙利腹地。At the same time we heard too the less-than-unprecedented response of Europe's sometimes elected, sometimes self-appointed defenders and their claims that the incoming un-European masses presented a mortal threat to Europe's Europeanness, to its values, its ways of life 、其机构、政治结构和组织。这些真正的欧洲人的守护者可能只是表达了当今右翼民族主义者经常毫不掩饰的种族主义意识形态，尽管他们本身当然不是非欧洲人。可以说，这些捍卫者甚至，也许尤其是在他们最恶毒的时候，证实了