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One should read (again?) Hannah Arendt and the mechanics of dehumanisation and propaganda in genocides. Beyond the dehumanisation of the victims by the perpetr
by rq1 3y ago
One should read (again?) Hannah Arendt and the mechanics of dehumanisation and propaganda in genocides.
Beyond the dehumanisation of the victims by the perpetrators, one should not dehumanise the latter in response. There were no monsters.
She was recalling that, it was ordinary men killing ordinary men, and ordinary men being killed by ordinary men.
And one of these ordinary men could have been your neighbour, or yourself.
- dang 3y agoShe was too far ahead of the rest of us. The idea of not dehumanizing the perpetrators is a long way away from mass acceptance.