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  1. A quotation from Aldous Huxley

    All propaganda directed against an opposing group has but one aim: to substitute diabolical abstractions for concrete persons. The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human. By robbing them of their personality, he puts them outside the pale of moral obligation. Mere symbols can have no rights — particularly when that of which they are symbolical is, by definition, evil.

    Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) English novelist, essayist and critic
    Essay (1936), “Words and Behaviour,” The Olive Tree, and Other Essays

    More about this quote: wist.info/huxley-aldous/14957/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #aldoushuxley #dehumanization #demonization #evil #inhumanity #propaganda #rights

  2. A quotation from Bill Watterson

       CALVIN: I’m writing a fund-raising letter. The secret to getting donations is to depict everyone who disagrees with you as the enemy. Then you explain how they’re systematically working to destroy everything you hold dear. It’s a War of Values! Rational discussion is hopeless! Compromise is unthinkable! Our only hope is well-funded antagonism, so we need your money to keep up the fight!
       HOBBES: How cynically unconstructive.
       CALVIN: Enmity sells.

    Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
    Calvin and Hobbes (1995-07-07)

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/watterson-bill/77538…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #billwatterson #calvinandhobbes #anger #antagonism #compromise #culturewar #demagoguery #demonization #donations #enmity #fundraising #hatred #politicalmovement #politicalpower #politicalpressure #politics #usvsthem #values

  3. A quotation from Bill Watterson

       CALVIN: I’m writing a fund-raising letter. The secret to getting donations is to depict everyone who disagrees with you as the enemy. Then you explain how they’re systematically working to destroy everything you hold dear. It’s a War of Values! Rational discussion is hopeless! Compromise is unthinkable! Our only hope is well-funded antagonism, so we need your money to keep up the fight!
       HOBBES: How cynically unconstructive.
       CALVIN: Enmity sells.

    Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
    Calvin and Hobbes (1995-07-07)

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/watterson-bill/77538…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #billwatterson #calvinandhobbes #anger #antagonism #compromise #culturewar #demagoguery #demonization #donations #enmity #fundraising #hatred #politicalmovement #politicalpower #politicalpressure #politics #usvsthem #values

  4. A quotation from Bill Watterson

       CALVIN: I’m writing a fund-raising letter. The secret to getting donations is to depict everyone who disagrees with you as the enemy. Then you explain how they’re systematically working to destroy everything you hold dear. It’s a War of Values! Rational discussion is hopeless! Compromise is unthinkable! Our only hope is well-funded antagonism, so we need your money to keep up the fight!
       HOBBES: How cynically unconstructive.
       CALVIN: Enmity sells.

    Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
    Calvin and Hobbes (1995-07-07)

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/watterson-bill/77538…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #billwatterson #calvinandhobbes #anger #antagonism #compromise #culturewar #demagoguery #demonization #donations #enmity #fundraising #hatred #politicalmovement #politicalpower #politicalpressure #politics #usvsthem #values

  5. A quotation from Bill Watterson

       CALVIN: I’m writing a fund-raising letter. The secret to getting donations is to depict everyone who disagrees with you as the enemy. Then you explain how they’re systematically working to destroy everything you hold dear. It’s a War of Values! Rational discussion is hopeless! Compromise is unthinkable! Our only hope is well-funded antagonism, so we need your money to keep up the fight!
       HOBBES: How cynically unconstructive.
       CALVIN: Enmity sells.

    Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
    Calvin and Hobbes (1995-07-07)

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/watterson-bill/77538…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #billwatterson #calvinandhobbes #anger #antagonism #compromise #culturewar #demagoguery #demonization #donations #enmity #fundraising #hatred #politicalmovement #politicalpower #politicalpressure #politics #usvsthem #values

  6. A quotation from Bill Watterson

       CALVIN: I’m writing a fund-raising letter. The secret to getting donations is to depict everyone who disagrees with you as the enemy. Then you explain how they’re systematically working to destroy everything you hold dear. It’s a War of Values! Rational discussion is hopeless! Compromise is unthinkable! Our only hope is well-funded antagonism, so we need your money to keep up the fight!
       HOBBES: How cynically unconstructive.
       CALVIN: Enmity sells.

    Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
    Calvin and Hobbes (1995-07-07)

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/watterson-bill/77538…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #billwatterson #calvinandhobbes #anger #antagonism #compromise #culturewar #demagoguery #demonization #donations #enmity #fundraising #hatred #politicalmovement #politicalpower #politicalpressure #politics #usvsthem #values

  7. CW: Demonizing sharks

    Hej Smol Loki, you heard also what the human was listening to? About a movie some humans made 50y ago about a gigantic evil shark hunting humans? And that humans have been describing sharks as devils for as long humans can write?

    Yeah, Smol Loki, if humans can't even face the truth about sharks, how can they ever face the truth about themselves?

    #Blåhaj #jaws #demonization #humanity

  8. A quotation from Will Rogers

    All you would have to do to make some men Atheists is just to tell them that the Lord belonged to the opposition Political Party. After that they could never see any good in Him.

    Will Rogers (1879-1935) American humorist
    Column (1925-03-29), “Weekly Article”

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/rogers-will/76493/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #willrogers #demonization #opposition #partisanship #partypolitics #politics #usversusthem

  9. As Brian Stelter notes, Dartmouth political science professor characterizes the video of Trump goons deporting those they rounded up and sent to El Salvador as follows:

    "Truly fascist propaganda."

    #Trump #immigrants #migrants #deportations #demonization #PoliticsofSpectacle #fascism
    /5

    view.newsletters.cnn.com/messa

  10. As Brian Stelter notes, Dartmouth political science professor characterizes the video of Trump goons deporting those they rounded up and sent to El Salvador as follows:

    "Truly fascist propaganda."

    #Trump #immigrants #migrants #deportations #demonization #PoliticsofSpectacle #fascism
    /5

    view.newsletters.cnn.com/messa

  11. As Brian Stelter notes, Dartmouth political science professor characterizes the video of Trump goons deporting those they rounded up and sent to El Salvador as follows:

    "Truly fascist propaganda."

    #Trump #immigrants #migrants #deportations #demonization #PoliticsofSpectacle #fascism
    /5

    view.newsletters.cnn.com/messa

  12. As Brian Stelter notes, Dartmouth political science professor characterizes the video of Trump goons deporting those they rounded up and sent to El Salvador as follows:

    "Truly fascist propaganda."

    #Trump #immigrants #migrants #deportations #demonization #PoliticsofSpectacle #fascism
    /5

    view.newsletters.cnn.com/messa

  13. As Brian Stelter notes, Dartmouth political science professor characterizes the video of Trump goons deporting those they rounded up and sent to El Salvador as follows:

    "Truly fascist propaganda."

    #Trump #immigrants #migrants #deportations #demonization #PoliticsofSpectacle #fascism
    /5

    view.newsletters.cnn.com/messa

  14. "The photos and videos of humans beings to whom this is done are dehumanizing, and deliberately so. …

    This deportation was planned as a political spectacle. The deportees were carefully chosen, as was the language used to describe them. The messaging was obviously coordinated in advance. And the entire humiliating procedure was carried out before cameras that were already in place."

    But my 401(k)!

    #Trump #immigrants #migrants #deportations #demonization #PoliticsofSpectacle #fascism
    /4

  15. "The photos and videos of humans beings to whom this is done are dehumanizing, and deliberately so. …

    This deportation was planned as a political spectacle. The deportees were carefully chosen, as was the language used to describe them. The messaging was obviously coordinated in advance. And the entire humiliating procedure was carried out before cameras that were already in place."

    But my 401(k)!

    #Trump #immigrants #migrants #deportations #demonization #PoliticsofSpectacle #fascism
    /4

  16. "The photos and videos of humans beings to whom this is done are dehumanizing, and deliberately so. …

    This deportation was planned as a political spectacle. The deportees were carefully chosen, as was the language used to describe them. The messaging was obviously coordinated in advance. And the entire humiliating procedure was carried out before cameras that were already in place."

    But my 401(k)!

    #Trump #immigrants #migrants #deportations #demonization #PoliticsofSpectacle #fascism
    /4

  17. "The photos and videos of humans beings to whom this is done are dehumanizing, and deliberately so. …

    This deportation was planned as a political spectacle. The deportees were carefully chosen, as was the language used to describe them. The messaging was obviously coordinated in advance. And the entire humiliating procedure was carried out before cameras that were already in place."

    But my 401(k)!

    #Trump #immigrants #migrants #deportations #demonization #PoliticsofSpectacle #fascism
    /4

  18. "The photos and videos of humans beings to whom this is done are dehumanizing, and deliberately so. …

    This deportation was planned as a political spectacle. The deportees were carefully chosen, as was the language used to describe them. The messaging was obviously coordinated in advance. And the entire humiliating procedure was carried out before cameras that were already in place."

    But my 401(k)!

    #Trump #immigrants #migrants #deportations #demonization #PoliticsofSpectacle #fascism
    /4

  19. "You do not know who was on those two planes to El Salvador. The individuals who arranged the deportation claim that the deportees were 'foreign alien terrorists,' but we have no way of knowing whether this is true. They also claim that they were 'monsters,' which is not true. We do not know the names of the human beings who were deported."

    #Trump #immigrants #migrants #deportations #demonization #PoliticsofSpectacle #fascism
    /2

  20. "You do not know who was on those two planes to El Salvador. The individuals who arranged the deportation claim that the deportees were 'foreign alien terrorists,' but we have no way of knowing whether this is true. They also claim that they were 'monsters,' which is not true. We do not know the names of the human beings who were deported."

    #Trump #immigrants #migrants #deportations #demonization #PoliticsofSpectacle #fascism
    /2

  21. "You do not know who was on those two planes to El Salvador. The individuals who arranged the deportation claim that the deportees were 'foreign alien terrorists,' but we have no way of knowing whether this is true. They also claim that they were 'monsters,' which is not true. We do not know the names of the human beings who were deported."

    #Trump #immigrants #migrants #deportations #demonization #PoliticsofSpectacle #fascism
    /2

  22. "You do not know who was on those two planes to El Salvador. The individuals who arranged the deportation claim that the deportees were 'foreign alien terrorists,' but we have no way of knowing whether this is true. They also claim that they were 'monsters,' which is not true. We do not know the names of the human beings who were deported."

    #Trump #immigrants #migrants #deportations #demonization #PoliticsofSpectacle #fascism
    /2

  23. "You do not know who was on those two planes to El Salvador. The individuals who arranged the deportation claim that the deportees were 'foreign alien terrorists,' but we have no way of knowing whether this is true. They also claim that they were 'monsters,' which is not true. We do not know the names of the human beings who were deported."

    #Trump #immigrants #migrants #deportations #demonization #PoliticsofSpectacle #fascism
    /2

  24. As Timothy Snyder says, evil is at our door now, at the door of all Americans, knocking and being welcomed in:

    "Individuals associated with the federal government have, in defiance of a court order and without a trial or any form of due process, deported hundreds of people from the territory of the United States to El Salvador, where they will be held indefinitely in a concentration camp."

    #Trump #immigrants #fascism #deportations #demonization #PoliticsofSpectacle
    /1

    snyder.substack.com/p/the-evil

  25. As Timothy Snyder says, evil is at our door now, at the door of all Americans, knocking and being welcomed in:

    "Individuals associated with the federal government have, in defiance of a court order and without a trial or any form of due process, deported hundreds of people from the territory of the United States to El Salvador, where they will be held indefinitely in a concentration camp."

    #Trump #immigrants #fascism #deportations #demonization #PoliticsofSpectacle
    /1

    snyder.substack.com/p/the-evil

  26. As Timothy Snyder says, evil is at our door now, at the door of all Americans, knocking and being welcomed in:

    "Individuals associated with the federal government have, in defiance of a court order and without a trial or any form of due process, deported hundreds of people from the territory of the United States to El Salvador, where they will be held indefinitely in a concentration camp."

    #Trump #immigrants #fascism #deportations #demonization #PoliticsofSpectacle
    /1

    snyder.substack.com/p/the-evil

  27. As Timothy Snyder says, evil is at our door now, at the door of all Americans, knocking and being welcomed in:

    "Individuals associated with the federal government have, in defiance of a court order and without a trial or any form of due process, deported hundreds of people from the territory of the United States to El Salvador, where they will be held indefinitely in a concentration camp."

    #Trump #immigrants #fascism #deportations #demonization #PoliticsofSpectacle
    /1

    snyder.substack.com/p/the-evil

  28. As Timothy Snyder says, evil is at our door now, at the door of all Americans, knocking and being welcomed in:

    "Individuals associated with the federal government have, in defiance of a court order and without a trial or any form of due process, deported hundreds of people from the territory of the United States to El Salvador, where they will be held indefinitely in a concentration camp."

    #Trump #immigrants #fascism #deportations #demonization #PoliticsofSpectacle
    /1

    snyder.substack.com/p/the-evil

  29. "Thanks to the great work of the Department of State, these heinous monsters were extracted & removed to El Salvador where they will no longer be able to pose any threat to the American People," #Trump WH press secy Karoline Leavitt said in a statement.

    "Ooopsie… too late," El Salvador's Pres Nayib #Bukele posted, in response to the judicial order.

    #law #immigration #DueProcess #14thAmendment #5thAmendment #CivilRights #HumanRights #demonization #WhiteSupremacy #Venezuela #geopolitics #USpol

  30. I am tired of #Humanity's trait of #Idolizing or #Demonizing of #Individuals. It's like they forget that even #Good #People do #Bad #Deeds and vice-versa.
    This stupid #Trait forces them to #Blind themselves to #Reality. And when that very reality comes knocking, instead of #Understanding the #Truth , it shatters them itself. Thus they #Fight to #Defend themselves by forcing the #Idolization or #Demonization onto the truth, even if it is mere #Lies.

    #Ruining the whole #World.

    #Philosphy #Lies

  31. I am tired of #Humanity's trait of #Idolizing or #Demonizing of #Individuals. It's like they forget that even #Good #People do #Bad #Deeds and vice-versa.
    This stupid #Trait forces them to #Blind themselves to #Reality. And when that very reality comes knocking, instead of #Understanding the #Truth , it shatters them itself. Thus they #Fight to #Defend themselves by forcing the #Idolization or #Demonization onto the truth, even if it is mere #Lies.

    #Ruining the whole #World.

    #Philosphy #Lies

  32. Here is what will happen on day one of Trump’s presidency, according to Project 2025

    With Republicans now holding bare majorities in both chambers of Congress, the gloves come off.

    As Trump utters the last phrase of the oath of office
    – “so help me God”
    – the first phase of what #Project2025’s authors call
    “the playbook” begins.

    ❌First come the firings.
    Thousands of federal, non-partisan civil servants
    –environmental and food safety regulators;
    authorities in disaster relief coordination;
    attorneys overseeing anti-discrimination policies in housing, education and employment;
    medical and scientific researchers
    – receive #immediate #layoff notices.
    💥Many will not be replaced, as entire federal programs and agencies are shuttered.

    The new personnel that do arrive come from conservative thinktanks, or are 💥rightwing activists who applied through the Project 2025 application database.
    🔥Political #cronyism is now the official hiring policy of the US federal government.

    ❌Next come the #roundups.
    As drafted by the Maga nativist-in-chief #Stephen #Miller,
    a broad range of law enforcement, from the national guard to state and local police are deputized
    for a new #deportation #army.

    Sweeps of neighborhoods and businesses take aim at blue states and cities,
    but general terror is their intended goal.
    #Detention #centers are established on military bases and federal facilities with quick access to airfields to execute #mass #removals.
    Nearly a million lawfully present immigrants are stripped of their legal protections, subjecting them to immediate deportation.
    🔸An end to Daca and a return of the Muslim ban follow.
    In the following months other parts of the agenda unfold.

    🆘Cuts in corporate taxes so generous they would make the robber barons blush.

    An end to federal funding for public television and radio that forces many local stations to shutter.

    The termination of Head Start programs leaves hundreds of thousands of parents and guardians without preschool or childcare.

    The elimination of the Department of Education and programs like Title I halt funding and many protections for students with disabilities, English learners and students from low-income households.

    Pornography is criminalized.

    Ditto for abortion rights, emergency contraception and many reproductive health programs.

    Adiós also to most public sector unions, labor organizing rights and anti-poverty programs.

    ⭐️It can be difficult at times to distinguish the hyperbole of Trump and the Maga movement from actual governing plans.
    “Build the wall” was always more of a campaign performance and fundraising stunt than a policy blueprint.

    But after attending several rightwing conferences and rallies for research in the last year, I have little reason to doubt their intentions this time around.

    🔥I’ve heard Miller at CPAC describethe deportation plans in chilling detail.

    I heard speaker after speaker at a Turning Point USA conference promise #violence and #retribution against political opponents,
    the dismantling of nearly all public goods,
    and plans to bring a shrill #Christian #nationalism to the center of governance and civic life.

    ❌I’ve listened to unapologetic defenses of #eugenics and scientific #racism on rightwing media channels with millions of followers.

    And perhaps most frighteningly, I’ve observed growing numbers of
    young people,
    people of color and others outside of the traditional conservative base
    join the #Maga faithful and embrace the #cynicism and #demonization that is the heartbeat of the contemporary right.

    Conservatives often celebrate the unity of their governing philosophy, rooted in small government, entrepreneurship, faith and family.

    But there is nothing coherent or rational about these policies.
    #Plunder is the prevailing principle.

    And these ideas are 👉not limited to the #Heritage #Foundation or Trump alone.
    🩸They have been embraced across a network of rightwing formations, some with agendas even more extreme than Project 2025.‼️

    theguardian.com/commentisfree/

  33. ⬆️

    Good #Palestinians in good countries like #US also have to deal with the additional #trauma of reconciling their #demonization of the #West with feeling of #GUILT about #safeHavens that they "#enjoy" in the same US & West.

    Their FIRST thought is that while their #Brothers & #Sisters in #MiddleEast suffer, the Palestinian #diaspora "enjoy every little thing" in the US.

    Their "SECOND thought is [Palestinians in #Gaza] DON'T get to enjoy this" ➡️ mastodon.social/@rameshgupta/1

    @specked @Jeffrey_Smith

  34. ⬆️

    Good #Palestinians in good countries like #US also have to deal with the additional #trauma of reconciling their #demonization of the #West with feeling of #GUILT about #safeHavens that they "#enjoy" in the same US & West.

    Their FIRST thought is that while their #Brothers & #Sisters in #MiddleEast suffer, the Palestinian #diaspora "enjoy every little thing" in the US.

    Their "SECOND thought is [Palestinians in #Gaza] DON'T get to enjoy this" ➡️ mastodon.social/@rameshgupta/1

    @specked @Jeffrey_Smith

  35. ⬆️

    Good #Palestinians in good countries like #US also have to deal with the additional #trauma of reconciling their #demonization of the #West with feeling of #GUILT about #safeHavens that they "#enjoy" in the same US & West.

    Their FIRST thought is that while their #Brothers & #Sisters in #MiddleEast suffer, the Palestinian #diaspora "enjoy every little thing" in the US.

    Their "SECOND thought is [Palestinians in #Gaza] DON'T get to enjoy this" ➡️ mastodon.social/@rameshgupta/1

    @specked @Jeffrey_Smith

  36. How should #Palestinians reconcile their #DEMONIZATION of #US and #West with the feeling of #GUILT about #safeHavens that Palestinian #diaspora "#enjoy" in the same US and West?

    While Palestinians in #MiddleEast suffer and blame #US, their #Brothers and #Sisters "enjoy every little thing" in the US.

    Their "SECOND thought is [Palestinians in #Gaza] don't get to enjoy this"

    "I'm still able to go with safety to grocery store… to go out to dinner without being bombed."

    bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-6

  37. How should #Palestinians reconcile their #DEMONIZATION of #US and #West with the feeling of #GUILT about #safeHavens that Palestinian #diaspora "#enjoy" in the same US and West?

    While Palestinians in #MiddleEast suffer and blame #US, their #Brothers and #Sisters "enjoy every little thing" in the US.

    Their "SECOND thought is [Palestinians in #Gaza] don't get to enjoy this"

    "I'm still able to go with safety to grocery store… to go out to dinner without being bombed."

    bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-6

  38. How should #Palestinians reconcile their #DEMONIZATION of #US and #West with the feeling of #GUILT about #safeHavens that Palestinian #diaspora "#enjoy" in the same US and West?

    While Palestinians in #MiddleEast suffer and blame #US, their #Brothers and #Sisters "enjoy every little thing" in the US.

    Their "SECOND thought is [Palestinians in #Gaza] don't get to enjoy this"

    "I'm still able to go with safety to grocery store… to go out to dinner without being bombed."

    bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-6

  39. …But the #threats have been steady & credible enough to prompt intense concern among #law enforcement ofcls. AG #MerrickGarland addressed the climate in testimony to #Congress on Wed, saying that while he recognized that the #DOJ’s work came w/scrutiny, the #demonization of #career #prosecutors & #FBI agents was menacing not only his employees but also the rule of law.

  40. UK's Floating Migrant Prison

    youtube.com/watch?v=iHbBlS9fao.

    The UK is using increasingly inhumane policies against migrants. The most recent example is a floating barge called Bibby Stockholm which has been compared to a floating prison and is being used as a detention facility for migrants. We spoke to the volunteer-run migrant charity Care4Calais, putting the migrant barge in the context of the UK's anti-migration offensive. Joe Cullinane of Care4Calais argues that the UK government's demonization of migrants is being used to distract attention from larger domestic crises.
    #UK #migrants #inhumane #threat #deterrent #prison #barge #demonization #distraction #domestic #crisis #humanrights

  41. "There is a culture that flourishes in conservative evangelical spaces that punishes those who raise concerns. There is a longstanding practice of circling the wagons, and of quickly and ruthlessly demonizing anyone who challenges those in power. …

    Many end up leaving quietly. But those who don’t are ostracized, maligned, painted as troublemakers. As feminists. As liberals. As moral degenerates. As vile."

    ~ Kristin du Mez

    #evangelicals #demonization

    kristindumez.substack.com/p/de