Don_Dickle@lemmy.worldM to Explain Like I'm Five@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoELI5 How come it seems now the old wise tale of Vietnamese eating pets and now its immigrants into the USA?message-squaremessage-square43fedilinkarrow-up155arrow-down119
arrow-up136arrow-down1message-squareELI5 How come it seems now the old wise tale of Vietnamese eating pets and now its immigrants into the USA?Don_Dickle@lemmy.worldM to Explain Like I'm Five@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square43fedilink
minus-squareUnquote0270@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25·1 year agoDehumanising people makes it easy to hate and persecute them, and to blame them for a bunch of stuff which isn’t their fault. It really is a classic move with a rich history.
minus-squareDon_Dickle@lemmy.worldOPMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down2·1 year agoI was discussing this with my mom over the phone and we kind of both were wondering if this is the playbook that Hitler used.
minus-squareCosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 year agoAbsolutely. It’s the playbook all fascists use.
Dehumanising people makes it easy to hate and persecute them, and to blame them for a bunch of stuff which isn’t their fault. It really is a classic move with a rich history.
I was discussing this with my mom over the phone and we kind of both were wondering if this is the playbook that Hitler used.
Absolutely. It’s the playbook all fascists use.