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We become depraved by degrees.

We become depraved by degrees. Germans did not become Jew killers in a day. It took years of conditioning, via propaganda, and then steady practice, via party and state brutality, to shed their humanity and become a nation of functional sociopaths. The Hamas terrorists who murdered babies in their cribs weren’t stamped with pathological hatred […]

If you look around American politics, you can see the early stages — and in select cases not so early — of the kind of moral, social and intellectual deterioration that first imagines, and later gleefully invites, atrocity.

We become depraved by degrees. Germans did not become Jew killers in a day. It took years of conditioning, via propaganda, and then steady practice, via party and state brutality,

The Hamas terrorists who murdered babies weren’t stamped with pathological hatred at birth. It was an acquired habit, the result of a process of moral dulling and rage sharpening. Texas Governor Greg Abbott is a national leader in implementing sadistic policies to inflict harm on targeted populations. Depravity has an increasingly solid foothold in the US. It is hard to pretend not knowing where it leads 

Prof. Gil Troy of McGill University joins from Jerusalem to talk about Hamas, Israel’s response, the left’s love for terrorists, and a silver lining in a horrible week. highlights / lowlights LINDA: After Hamas onslaught, Trump criticizes Israel, calls Gallant a ‘jerk’ GIL: Lowlight: The attack on Israel…

There’s a big error some well-meaning people are making.

Groups like the Democratic Socialists of America are on the defensive as allies condemn activists celebrating the Hamas attack.

Apologias for Hamas-style violence are part of an old tradition on the left.

Israel has been so fraught in some progressive circles that many preferred not to talk about it, enforcing a sort of strategic silence to avoid division.