#banality-of-evil — Public Fediverse posts
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This first post from Alice English is almost overwhelming #FossilCapital #banalityofevil (belongs in @privateeyenews but they can't do everything... )
https://open.substack.com/pub/aliceenglish/p/the-banality-is-the-point -
This first post from Alice English is almost overwhelming #FossilCapital #banalityofevil (belongs in @privateeyenews but they can't do everything... )
https://open.substack.com/pub/aliceenglish/p/the-banality-is-the-point -
A quotation from Hannah Arendt
The sad truth of the matter is that most evil is done by people who never made up their minds to be or do either evil or good.
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
Life of the Mind, Vol. 1 “Thinking,” Part 3, ch. 18 “The two-in-one” (1977)More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/1350/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #arendt #hannaharendt #amorality #apathy #banality #banalityofevil #decision #evil #good #indecision #lukewarm #moralchoice #moralcode #thoughtlessness #virtue #vice #evildoer #wrongdoing #rightandwrong #moralagency #responsiblity #takeresponsibility
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A quotation from Hannah Arendt
The sad truth of the matter is that most evil is done by people who never made up their minds to be or do either evil or good.
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
Life of the Mind, Vol. 1 “Thinking,” Part 3, ch. 18 “The two-in-one” (1977)More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/1350/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #arendt #hannaharendt #amorality #apathy #banality #banalityofevil #decision #evil #good #indecision #lukewarm #moralchoice #moralcode #thoughtlessness #virtue #vice #evildoer #wrongdoing #rightandwrong #moralagency #responsiblity #takeresponsibility
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Han jagades av ICE – såg Pretti skjutas
https://www.dn.se/varlden/han-jagades-av-ice-sag-pretti-skjutas/
#democracy vs #usfascism #fascism
#banalityofevil
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Han jagades av ICE – såg Pretti skjutas
https://www.dn.se/varlden/han-jagades-av-ice-sag-pretti-skjutas/
#democracy vs #usfascism #fascism
#banalityofevil
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RE: https://mastodon.nz/@AnnaMcM/115880519720659063
"These defenders - some of whom are our workmates, neighbours, even friends and family - aren't carrying out rules. Tyrants don’t even rely on rules anymore. Instead, the defenders are methodically, impassively, searching for rules to somehow justify the tyranny.
Evil's not banal anymore. It’s flaunting itself, smirking at us through a brazen 24/7 news cycle. It’s more like our banality is making the evil possible. "
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RE: https://mastodon.nz/@AnnaMcM/115880519720659063
"These defenders - some of whom are our workmates, neighbours, even friends and family - aren't carrying out rules. Tyrants don’t even rely on rules anymore. Instead, the defenders are methodically, impassively, searching for rules to somehow justify the tyranny.
Evil's not banal anymore. It’s flaunting itself, smirking at us through a brazen 24/7 news cycle. It’s more like our banality is making the evil possible. "
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A quotation from Hannah Arendt
When I speak of the banality of evil, I do so only on the strictly factual level, pointing to a phenomenon which stared one in the face at the trial. Eichmann was not Iago and not Macbeth, and nothing would have been farther from his mind than to determine with Richard III “to prove a villain.” Except for an extraordinary diligence in looking out for his personal advancement, he had no motives at all. And this diligence in itself was in no way criminal; he certainly would never have murdered his superior in order to inherit his post. He merely, to put the matter colloquially, never realized what he was doing.
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, Postscript (1963)More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/80707/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hannaharendt #arendt #accountability #banalityofevil #consequences #crime #evil #evilperson #evildoer #Holocaust #intent #moralityplay #motivation #villain #willfulignorance
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The imagery used by the US Department of Labour draws on fascist design patterns that are directly reminiscent of Nazi propaganda from the 1930s. Once again, there is no denying that there is no accounting for bad taste. Not only is there a lack of aesthetic education, but the basis of fascism remains an inexhaustible supply of uneducated stupidity and ignorance, especially in leadership positions.
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/what-we-choose-to-nazi-department-of-labor-heroic-realism-doj-january-6th#antifa #banalityOfEvil #democracy #fascism #labour #Tradeunion #uspol
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A Anti-Far Right campaign by the British Trade Union Congress on the topic of the far right. Trade unions are among the few institutions that have the resources, campaign expertise and organisational reach to counteract the extreme right.
https://www.tuc.org.uk/antifarright
#activism #antifa #banalityOfEvil #Courage #democracy #Gewerkschaft #noauthoritarianism #strike #tradeUnion #uspol
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A quotation from Hannah Arendt
What stuck in the minds of these men who had become murderers was simply the notion of being involved in something historic, grandiose, unique (“a great task that occurs once in two thousand years”), which must therefore be difficult to bear. This was important, because the murderers were not sadists or killers by nature; on the contrary, a systematic effort was made to weed out all those who derived physical pleasure from what they did. The troops of the Einsatzgruppen had been drafted from the Armed S.S., a military unit with hardly more crimes in its record than any ordinary unit of the German Army, and their commanders had been chosen by Heydrich from the S.S. élite with academic degrees. Hence the problem was how to overcome not so much their conscience as the animal pity by which all normal men are affected in the presence of physical suffering. The trick used by Himmler — who apparently was rather strongly afflicted by these instinctive reactions himself — was very simple and probably very effective; it consisted in turning these instincts around, as it were, in directing them toward the self. So that instead of saying: What horrible things I did to people!, the murderers would be able to say: What horrible things I had to watch in the pursuance of my duties, how heavily the task weighed upon my shoulders!
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, ch. 6 (1963)More info about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/13940/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hannaharendt #banalityofevil #burden #difficulty #duty #genocide #Holocaust #killer #murder #murderer #persuasion #pity #selfcenteredness #selfdeception #selfpity #task #selfjustification
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Der Schleswig-Holsteinische Landtag beschließt einstimmig:
AfD verfassungsrechtlich überprüfen lassen.Drucksache 20/3694
20.Wahlperiode 8.Oktober 2025
Antrag der Fraktionen von CDU, BÜNDNIS 90/DIE GRÜNEN, SPD und SSW
Plenarprotokoll 20/99 15.10.2025
Beschl: Annahme (einstimmig)#activsm #antifa #banalityOfEvil #democracy #noafd #SchleswigHolstein
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Der Schleswig-Holsteinische Landtag beschließt einstimmig:
AfD verfassungsrechtlich überprüfen lassen.Drucksache 20/3694
20.Wahlperiode 8.Oktober 2025
Antrag der Fraktionen von CDU, BÜNDNIS 90/DIE GRÜNEN, SPD und SSW
Plenarprotokoll 20/99 15.10.2025
Beschl: Annahme (einstimmig)
https://e-lissh.landtag.ltsh.de/portal/vorgang/V-287240#activsm #antifa #banalityOfEvil #democracy #noafd #SchleswigHolstein #AfDVerbotJetzt
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Historical analogies: suppression and repression of the past for the present and undescribed future - remember!
#activsm #antifa #art #banalityOfEvil #civilcourage #crime #democracy #history #uspol
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Historical analogies: suppression and repression of the past for the present and undescribed future - remember!
#activsm #antifa #art #banalityOfEvil #civilcourage #crime #democracy #history #uspol
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What all Germans know and many still want to suppress today:
>> 1933 Germany
Anyone who was not prepared to
resist the government was complicit
in the crimes.
2025 USA<<
#activsm #antifa #art #banalityOfEvil #civilcourage #crime #democracy #uspol -
What all Germans know and many still want to suppress today:
>> 1933 Germany
Anyone who was not prepared to
resist the government was complicit
in the crimes.
2025 USA<<
#activsm #antifa #art #banalityOfEvil #civilcourage #crime #democracy #uspol -
Hello
@…. # aye#WhoopAndAHoller* #watt
#TheLargerNow**‘The Holocaust as History and Warning\ #NeverAgainIsNow
#MoreFromThom
{ *¿|https://www.thomhartmann.com/blog/2017/02/transcript-origins-totalitarianism-and-trump-administration-26-january-17 #HumanOutcry#BanalityOfEvil / #RealWealthOfNations
{ **¿| #ChaliceAndTheBlade#OnTyranny // #TimothySnyderSpeaks || #AmericaDefeatsAmerica
#BlackEarth #EcologicalPanic #Calories
#OurMalady #Answer #awe #wonder { ¿| #TheHolyNow -
Für die globalen Big-Tech-Oligarchien sind deine Bürgerrechte und Daten ein Verkaufsmodell zum Ausverkauf an autoritäre Regime:
Alphabet, Apple, Amazon, Broadcom, Cloudflare, Meta Platforms, Microsoft, usw. Die Stasi hätte von derartigen Möglichkeiten geträumt.
Wo steigst du wann aus?
Und wo steigt du ein?
https://theintercept.com/2025/09/16/google-facebook-subpoena-ice-students-gaza/#activism #antifa #autonomy #banalityOfEvil #democracy #digitalSovereignty #digitalrights #EU-Digital #humanrights #totalitarianism #pivacy
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#tl;dr "The #BanalityOfEvil shows how #OrdinaryPeople through #Thoughtlessness and #Complacency become complicit in #UnimaginableCrimes. In #Gaza, this #ComplicityKills — silence and inaction fuel #Genocide." #StopTheGenocide 💚 ✊ 🔥
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#tl;dr "The #BanalityOfEvil shows how #OrdinaryPeople through #Thoughtlessness and #Complacency become complicit in #UnimaginableCrimes. In #Gaza, this #ComplicityKills — silence and inaction fuel #Genocide." #StopTheGenocide 💚 ✊ 🔥
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(3/3) Citation format example (MLA):
#ArendtHannah. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the #BanalityofEvil. New York: Viking Press, 1963. -
(3/3) Citation format example (MLA):
#ArendtHannah. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the #BanalityofEvil. New York: Viking Press, 1963. -
"thats just the way it is",
until we do better and people look back going,
"damn they were really that stupid?"
"why would they put up with that?"and historians get upset trying to contextualize.
"no, they were just as smart as we are, and this can happen to anyone"
#Democracy #RiseOfTheMiddleClass #Science #Medicine #BanalityOfEvil
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If we’re not talking about the Epstein Files…. Thankfully John Ganz brings up Aristotle and the The Stavisky scandal in the Third Republic to put it all in context.
#BanalityOfEvil #Epstein #Epsteinfiles
https://open.substack.com/pub/johnganz/p/the-banality-of-jeffrey-epstein?r=ct3l&utm_medium=ios -
If you’re just going about your day without giving a second thought to the crimes against humanity committed by this administration, then, bad news: you’re part of the problem.
#BanalityOfEvil #Amerika #eightysix47 #resist #Ω #donotcomply #immigration
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/27/us/children-us-citizens-deported-honduras/index.html
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Did we catch this? During the press availability in the Oval Office today, May 30, 2025, Elon Musk—on his "last day" as head of the fake "Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)"—appropriated Hannah Arendt’s phrase "the banality of evil" to describe routine government bureaucracy.
#ElonMusk #BanalityOfEvil #doge #HannahArendt #OvalOffice #DOGE #Bureaucracy #Orwellian #PoliticalLanguage#Gaslighting
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Did we catch this? During the press availability in the Oval Office today, May 30, 2025, Elon Musk—on his "last day" as head of the fake "Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)"—appropriated Hannah Arendt’s phrase "the banality of evil" to describe routine government bureaucracy.
#ElonMusk #BanalityOfEvil #doge #HannahArendt #OvalOffice #DOGE #Bureaucracy #Orwellian #PoliticalLanguage#Gaslighting
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𝐇𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐚𝐡 𝐀𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐭 - 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑶𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒊𝒏𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝑻𝒐𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒔𝒎 - Chapter One: Antisemitism as an Outrage to Common Sense
I'm reading Arendt's history on the horrors of Stalinism and Nazism. Here are some of my reflections; read and follow along with me!
#HannahArendt #theoriginsoftotalitarianism #democracy #totalitarianism #oligarchy #tyranny #history #reading #books #banalityofevil
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Hey…..hello neighbour I don't believe in what you believe You skin is filthy And your gods don't look like god to me #BanalityofEvil by #NineHorses The perpetrators are in denial. youtu.be/IR_hhIg1fhw?... #Music #Alternative #pop #Japan #DavidSylvian
David Sylvian & Nine Horses - ... -
no argument
everyone needs to see this #documentary:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Act_of_Killing
it's absolutely devastating, it delves deftly into the psyche of those guilty of #massMurder, all while presenting the #banalityOfEvil as #HannahArendt put it
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no argument
everyone needs to see this #documentary:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Act_of_Killing
it's absolutely devastating, it delves deftly into the psyche of those guilty of #massMurder, all while presenting the #banalityOfEvil as #HannahArendt put it
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@serge That’s a big reason I’m here. The blatant #antisemitism doesn’t bother me near as much as does the generally apathetic response of admins and other users.
“Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.” —#MLK
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There is a lot of this going around.
I see a similar thing when #Kiwis are reminded of their commercial #Rugby being owned by #RupertMurdoch, the #TrumpInstaller.
I'm meaning to read #ThePeopleOfTheLie, a book by that #TheRoadLessTravelled author.
It has a story about some parents who refused to acknowledge the associations of an object. -
There is a lot of this going around.
I see a similar thing when #Kiwis are reminded of their commercial #Rugby being owned by #RupertMurdoch, the #TrumpInstaller.
I'm meaning to read #ThePeopleOfTheLie, a book by that #TheRoadLessTravelled author.
It has a story about some parents who refused to acknowledge the associations of an object. -
CW: USpol: Trump and the 1961 Milgram experiments
A thoughtful long thread by @wdlindsy
On Trump's dehumanising policies, the support these seem to generate among many normal folks, and how this relates to the infamous Milgram experiments from the 1960s.
Not a very rosy train of reflections, so (contrary to my usual avoidance of QTs) I refer to the thread by link and I give this post a CW.
Thank you to @wdlindsy for his thought-provoking thread.
https://toad.social/@wdlindsy/113929408245844500
#Trump #MilgramExperiment #StanleyMilgram #BanalityOfEvil #USpol
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CW: USpol: Trump and the 1961 Milgram experiments
A thoughtful long thread by @wdlindsy
On Trump's dehumanising policies, the support these seem to generate among many normal folks, and how this relates to the infamous Milgram experiments from the 1960s.
Not a very rosy train of reflections, so (contrary to my usual avoidance of QTs) I refer to the thread by link and I give this post a CW.
Thank you to @wdlindsy for his thought-provoking thread.
https://toad.social/@wdlindsy/113929408245844500
#Trump #MilgramExperiment #StanleyMilgram #BanalityOfEvil #USpol
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Admittedly, there are worse things people are dealing with these days than trying to find a new way to make a living. But the banality of evil means we all still have to, and it gets harder and harder, and we compete with each other for smaller scraps of the economy. And the need for income continues even as the jackboots pound the streets.
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Admittedly, there are worse things people are dealing with these days than trying to find a new way to make a living. But the banality of evil means we all still have to, and it gets harder and harder, and we compete with each other for smaller scraps of the economy. And the need for income continues even as the jackboots pound the streets.
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If you are looking for potential fascists, you may not need to look very far…
Hanna Arendt (2012)
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@davidtoddmccarty Hannah Arendt’s #BanalityOfEvil is real af
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" I changed my mind and do no longer speak of “radical evil.” … It is indeed my opinion now that evil is never “radical,” that it is only extreme, and that it possesses neither depth nor any demonic dimension. It can overgrow and lay waste the whole world precisely because it spreads like a fungus on the surface. It is “thought-defying,” as I said, because thought tries to reach some depth, to go to the roots, and the moment it concerns itself with evil, it is frustrated because there is nothing. That is its “banality.” Only the good has depth that can be radical." ---Hannah Arendt
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“It’s all just a little bit of herstory repeating “ - Shirley Bassey
Masha Gessen December 2023
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/14/award-ceremony-suspended-after-writer-masha-gessen-compares-gaza-to-nazi-era-jewish-ghettosEssay in #NewYorker
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-weekend-essay/in-the-shadow-of-the-holocaust( Note: The death toll from Israeli bombardment in the Gaza Strip has risen to 18,787, mostly women and children, 50,897 people wounded. )
Hannah Arendt Essay in #NewYorker Feb 1963
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1963/02/16/eichmann-in-jerusalem-i -
#BanalityOfEvil Why Israel imprisons so many Palestinians
“While this is not completely prohibited under international law, the use of administrative detention is only permitted in exceptional circumstances and subject to stringent safeguards,” Elizabeth Rghebi, the Middle East and North Africa advocacy director at Amnesty International USA, told me.
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#BanalityOfEvil Why Israel imprisons so many Palestinians
“While this is not completely prohibited under international law, the use of administrative detention is only permitted in exceptional circumstances and subject to stringent safeguards,” Elizabeth Rghebi, the Middle East and North Africa advocacy director at Amnesty International USA, told me.
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#BanalityOfEvil [repost] “A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: A Palestine Story”
About the Palestinian children Israel sent to jail. An edited extract from “A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: A Palestine Story”, which was recently published by Allen Lane.
“In her work as a doctor with #UNRWA, the UN relief and works agency for Palestinian refugees, Huda saw things that made her afraid for her sons. She had witnessed a soldier shoot a boy who threw a stone at a tank. The soldiers stopped her from going to help him as he fell to the ground. At home in Sawahre, listening to the nightly news of West Bank killings and closures, she had trouble sleeping. She knew Hadi was out throwing stones.”
@israel
@palestine
@bookstodon
#OccupiedWestBank
#Israel
#Palestine
#ChildrensRights
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#BanalityOfEvil [#repost] a reminder of who Israel takes into custody, and that international pressure can shame them into releasing many of this prisoners who's only crime is often being Palestinian.
The original post was from September, Mr. al-Qaisi has been released in October.
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#Palestinian-Italian researcher Khaled al-Qaisi, a translator, researcher and student in the Department of Oriental Languages and Civilizations at Sapienza University of Rome, has been detained by #Israeli occupation forces since 31 August.
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@sourcecontrol21 @zurnull @jessicalexicus
Do you know urge of normalcy?
Do you know why ppl summit pear pressure as often in history?
Do you know denial?
Do you know what happened in europe 100 yrs ago can happen again?
Do you know
fascism?
health supremacy?Jessica Wildfire wrote several articles
This one is about
UNS
-> URGENT NORMAL SYNDROMhttps://ko-fi.com/post/If-You-Suffer-from-Urgent-Normal-Syndrome-Ask-for-K3K6MN65U
yesterday were published
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Expertenrat protocols 2022 -
“Good can be radical; evil can never be radical, it can only be extreme, for it possesses neither depth nor any demonic dimension yet—and this is its horror—it can spread like a fungus over the surface of the earth and lay waste the entire world.”
