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i don't know where you are from, but the education about the holocaust i received was especially memorable because it went through great detail explaining how t
by kazen44 6y ago
i don't know where you are from, but the education about the holocaust i received was especially memorable because it went through great detail explaining how the holocaust was different from the millenia of bloodshed and genocide that happened before. (European history is drowned in blood and suppresion sadly).
The holocaust is especially horrifying because it turned killing into an abstract process that made apathy the "silent killer" so to speak.
The holocaust was possible because step by step, the dehumanization and abstraction of the process resulted in people being able to be apathetic to it.
- ThrowawayR2 6y ago> "The holocaust was possible because step by step, the dehumanization and abstraction of the process resulted in people being able to be apathetic to it." Abstraction of the process is not required nor is a process of dehumanization if it's already culturally ingrained. It is rarely spoken of but the Japanese occupation of Asia immediately preceding and during WWII caused nearly triple the deaths of the Holocaust (the vast majority being civilian) with as much or greater brutality in many cases and was not neatly confined to camps but widespread across all of Japan's occupied territories.
- 082349872349872 6y agoSpeaking of dehumanisation and abstraction, Roberto Begnini's "math problem" scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LhuGKejDq8&t=116 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LhuGKejDq8&t=116 came to mind during March-era discussions of possible Covid responses.