Francis Wilkinson: Hamas' terror also holds a warning for the U.S. – Twin Cities
We become depraved by degrees.
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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