• CareHare@sh.itjust.works
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    7 months ago

    Nazi’s often referred to Jews as rats. The comparison between a sort of vermin that lives in our streets and the people that are undergoing a genocide is quickly made it seems. People in the 50’ies would never believe you if you told them that 70 odd years later, it would be a Jewish government at the head of a genocide.

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      7 months ago

      Yes, dehumanization is a common feature of genocide. Rohingya in Myanmar were called fleas and rabid dogs, Tutsi in Rwanda were called cockroackes and vermin.