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06-14-2017 08:39 PM |
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Originally Posted by kane
(Post 21834319)
There is a difference. People in ISIS are bottle fed hatred of the West from a very young age. They are raised to believe we are evil and out to destroy them and they are denied access to things that says otherwise. They are also raised to believe that God loves them and wants them to kill us. They have been brainwashed. The same with the Nazis. Leaders can scare large amounts of people into doing shitty things to other people but none of that has anything to do with what this guy did. This guy was a crazy person who decided he was going to act out violently. There are plenty of people out there who hate Trump (or in the past have hated whoever was President) and they didn't act out violently because they aren't crazy people.
What happened today, as I said before, is not a policy or political problem, it is a mental health problem.
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Not trying to argue or take a political side... but i'd like to say that generally, people really misunderstand how incredibly easy it is to mobilize a society to wipe out another.
The blue eye/brown eye experiment by a school teacher named Jane Elliot offered an incredible look into just how easy it is to turn kids on each other to the point of hatred and violence and how very little it takes (its in our genes)... and then how easy it is to completely turn it around the other way.
A Class Divided | FRONTLINE | PBS
The Robbers Cave Experiment also showed how easy it is to do this when there is the need to compete for a scarce resource such as a baseball field to play on... no matter how seemingly insignificant that resource is.
https://www.simplypsychology.org/robbers-cave.html
Modern brain science offers even more scary views into how we organize into in-groups and out-groups and how very little it takes to push us to violence against the other. Nazis didn't turn on humanity or turn Germans against Jews and others because of a lunatic preaching hate... its far easier than that. It's just a simple process.
It was a simple process that they followed to create an in-group and out-group, then creating identifying markings for each, then distinguish them from each other ways, then vilify the other etc. etc. until you get to a point that killing seems necessary and becomes easy. W Hat i mean to say is that its not as simple as a crazy person screaming "these guys must die". Its actually much much easier than that and the process will often go unnoticed until its too late.
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