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I've read the same about the Rwandan Genocide.


The Cambodian killing fields as well.

However, you have to remember that in none of these cases did the perpetrators act spontaneously on random victims. They were all primed to see the victims as part of a group both inferior (i.e. not deserving of empathy) and threatening (i.e. to be feared, hated and eliminated).


> They were all primed to see the victims as part of a group both inferior (i.e. not deserving of empathy) and threatening...

Well, there you have it.


Your typical racist cop is primed the same way.




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