(May 11, 2016 at 2:11 pm)Gemini Wrote:(May 11, 2016 at 1:16 pm)Emjay Wrote: Yeah, it just seems like there's no way it could be ignorance because no-one could be that blind. It has to be wilful, so it's scary as fuck.
I think it's similar to the way people can willfully de-humanize other humans, based on their race, sex, beliefs, etc. If you can deny the undeniable humanity of another person, you can deny any number of inconvenient contradictions in your creed.
Yeah, definitely. I think the Nazis were a prime example of that; there's no way they could have created such extreme hatred and lack of empathy in an entire nation without dehumanising the Jews by comparing them to rats and lice etc. And I think it was wilful... a deliberate and calculated ploy by their propaganda machine.
