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CW: article on studying the rwandan genocide - some speculation on current US politics & events and gamergate
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turns out a lot of people in the rwandan genocide tried to appeal to being "good people" and victimization - "were targeted for being Hutus"
we've seen this behavior thoroughly documented in the alt right since a certain game dev was revenge targeted and it continues today
https://news.osu.edu/news/2017/10/05/genocide-neutralization/
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@vahnj I'm very much of the opinion that thinking you're absolutely and undeniably a good person is one of the most dangerous things for a person to believe about themself.
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@starkatt i wholeheartedly agree
some self-thinking about my extremely heavy world shit post, talking about nazis
@vahnj have you seen The Act of Killing? it's a documentary about the people who participated in anticommunist death squads in indonesia in the 1960s. it's a tough watch but it gave me some perspective on how people manage to justify really monstrous things to themselves
some self-thinking about my extremely heavy world shit post, talking about nazis
@wolfteeth nope! Maybe I'll have to check it out
some self-thinking about my extremely heavy world shit post, talking about nazis
why am i reading this while on vacation?
well, i care a lot about figuring out how to take apart nazis and i think understanding how they justify themselves is an important step to deconstructing that if you deal with them
punching nazis is great but that alone isn't enough to de-radicalize every one of them