@izzythepush,
izzythepush wrote:
What was disturbing was that such people will always find a way to justify it. She told of a man convicted of raping a 5 year old who justified that by saying she was a beggar girl, which gave him a sense of entitlement.
He was ‘entitled’ because she was very poor…
This reminds me of the necessity of ‘dehumanization’ to induce genocidal behaviors. A normal human being cannot shoot a child and his mother walking along a street without a deeply entrenched belief that they are not really human.
When I was looking for my first teaching job in CA, I worked as a teacher’s assistant at an awesome school in Menlo Park and met another assistant, an Israeli. She told me of her 2-year stint in the army At that time in my life, I thought it was a brilliant policy to train everyone in defense of the small nation.
Now, knowing what I do about what this ‘army’ did routinely to Palestinians, I see that a main objective was to inculcate the dehumanization of Palestinians into each individual Israeli citizen and therefore the entire society.
This is why we see video of these young IDF soldiers dancing and laughing over the corpses of dead Palestinians.
Intentional systemic, grand-scale dehumanization.
