Post #4358708
2026-08-03 15:50 UTC
Replies (5)
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@MunkyNutts@lemmy.world 2026-08-03 20:16
When they’re not seen as humans but animals, vermin, etc. it becomes easy to commit such atrocities. An excerpt from “On Freedom” by Timothy Snyder I’m currently reading helps define it some, In Nazi propaganda, east Europeans were subhuman beasts. On Soviet posters, rich peasants were pigs. Russian television today takes this notion to a postmodern extreme: Ukrainians are to be exterminated because they are Nazis, Jews, gays, Satanists, ghouls, zombies, vermin. The next step is violence, the opposite of recognition of the Leib. When we torture or humiliate a body, we further objectify it. After the body has been degraded and the person humiliated, the killer finds the work easier to bear. Some enjoy it.
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@mirshafie@europe.pub 2026-08-03 23:23
But they are several steps removed from reality. They are so brainwashed that they think it’s okay, that normal people cheer them on, and that it’s only bad people who would see anything wrong with this.
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@kreskin@lemmy.world 2026-08-03 23:21
And heads up, zionists dont see americans or christians as any more human than they see palestinians.
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@Tattorack@lemmy.world 2026-08-04 14:38
It begins with regarding other people (be them a different skin colour, culture, or faith) as a problem. Then the roadmap to regard them as less than worthy as Humans is well on its way. Once you’ve established them as lesser and unworthy, committing atrocities on them is very easy.
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@Lenins_Dumbbell@lemmygrad.ml 2026-08-04 15:47
The whole Israeli society is so rotten to the core, I don’t know if its even possible to rehabilitate them without mass reeducation campaigns that no country is going to take responsibility for. This ends well for no one