I don’t see how anyone could ever convince me how innocent women and children are monsters. Nah man, I think you are either skipping a lot of steps here or there’s something else fucky happening with these murderers.
I‘m talking about dehumanization in general. Labeling perpetrators as „Monsters“ happens pretty often and is a very common way to dehumanise someone because it’s easier to turn someone into a monster than to accept that humans are capable of horrifying things.
But you are right, to dehumanise innocent bystanders you needs a few more steps and a few years of racist/fascist propaganda. „Us“ vs „Them“ is probably a good start. Followed by normalising violence in general and especially against „Them“.
On top of this comes a bundle of arbitrary rules that we are told „They“ always break because it’s in their „Nature“.
And there you go…
Maybe it’s because I didn’t grow with anything us vs them that I can’t relate to being persuaded by such propaganda, but as an adult people should know better. At least these days when we have a good way to actually see for ourselves what’s happening in other places in the world and hear their own stories.
I don’t understand that part either. The dehumanization. Humans are human. How can people forget that?
That’s easy:
Step 1: Someonetm does something bad.
Step 2: People are shocked and feel the need to distance themselves.
Step 3: Someonetm is called „Monster“
And there we have dehumanization in three easy steps.
I don’t see how anyone could ever convince me how innocent women and children are monsters. Nah man, I think you are either skipping a lot of steps here or there’s something else fucky happening with these murderers.
I‘m talking about dehumanization in general. Labeling perpetrators as „Monsters“ happens pretty often and is a very common way to dehumanise someone because it’s easier to turn someone into a monster than to accept that humans are capable of horrifying things.
But you are right, to dehumanise innocent bystanders you needs a few more steps and a few years of racist/fascist propaganda. „Us“ vs „Them“ is probably a good start. Followed by normalising violence in general and especially against „Them“. On top of this comes a bundle of arbitrary rules that we are told „They“ always break because it’s in their „Nature“. And there you go…
Maybe it’s because I didn’t grow with anything us vs them that I can’t relate to being persuaded by such propaganda, but as an adult people should know better. At least these days when we have a good way to actually see for ourselves what’s happening in other places in the world and hear their own stories.