If you ever wondered how Germans became Nazi's

[Emile]

you're seeing it firsthand with Renee Good's murder.

“The banality of evil.”

That famous concept coined by Hannah Arendt sprung from her studying the Nazis after The Holocaust. It stands for the proposition that everyday people can commit horrific acts. In her own words, the Nazi officer she studied was “neither perverted nor sadistic” but rather “terrifyingly normal.”

How do people or are otherwise “normal” become seduced to commit these crimes against humanity? She found this was due to a mix of factors such as conformity, people being lost and seeking purpose, nationalist fervor, propaganda, and fear.

Some have disagreed with Arendt’s view, but I believe she’s correct. And that is why what we are seeing with MAGA—especially after the murder of Renee Good by an ICE officer--is so deeply alarming.

Continued at:

https://deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/if-you-ever-wondered-how-germans

[Kid Berwyn]

1. Hannah Arendt wrote the truth about Eichmann.

"I was only following orders."

Thus today, ss long as "one's superiors" are telling you it's OK to do NAZI, it's OK to NAZI.

[Emile]

3. It's amazing how right-wingers are justifying deadly

force to protesters.

[Kid Berwyn]

5. Every day, Hannah Arendt becomes more and more important.

The Power of Non-Reconciliation – Arendt’s Judgment of Adolf Eichmann

by Roger Berkowitz

Excerpt...

Eichmann must hang, Arendt argues, neither because he broke the law, nor merely as a setting right of the scales of justice through revenge. He must hang, instead, because no human being must be expected to share the earth with him. He must hang, in other words, because what he did was so horrific that it must simply be rejected, eradicated, and said no to. This does not mean it should be forgotten, not at all. Rather, the world in which Eichmann's crimes could and did happen must simply be said no to. In short, Eichmann must hang because his crimes are irreconcilable with a civilized world.

Continues...

Source: https://www.hannaharendt.net/index.php/han/article/view/11/8.

To get rid of the NAZI, we must get rid of all NAZIs -- including the ones in our government.

[cilla4progress]

2. Absolutely correct.

Reminds me of hearing Jeffrey Dahmer - a cannibal murderer from Chicago in the 1980s - speak. I thought his voice would sound like a demon. But instead, it sounded as normal as the grocery store bagger.

Chilling.

[dem4decades]

4. I used to, not anymore

[LetMyPeopleVote]

6. I am nervous

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