Thursday, March 11, 2021

What's in a Name?

The Weaponization Of The Term "Far Right" [More]

If you want to exterminate people, first you have to dehumanize them.

[Via bondmen]

3 comments:

DDS said...

Ever notice that the political spectrum seems to go: Progressive, Left, Mainstream, Right, Far Right, Radical Right, Extreme Right, Wingnut Right?

Anonymous said...

A more precise term than "dehumanize" would be "demonize." Merely thinking of someone as not human (e.g. as an animal) is not enough. We don't think of moral agency applying to animals. What the National Socialists did, and what the Left are doing now, is *demonizing* their enemies. The enemy is not merely unhuman, he is caricatured as *evil* and thus deserving of condemnation, punishment, and death.
/GJ

David Codrea said...

If that had been the point I was trying to make, it would have been more precise. The link goes to "Are you vermin?" and how that is used by tyrants to exterminate populations equated with cockroaches.