Organized extermination of an entire ethnic, political, or social group never arises spontaneously, it requires several stages of conditioning the greater public.
It starts with scapegoating: constantly turning a target group into the fall-guy to distract from an ongoing revolution. Expect to be the butt of cheap jokes, blamed for vague crimes, and expected to accept shame and humiliation. Kulaks, Jews, bourgeosis, have all started off here at various times.
It continues with a stronger push for de-legitimization:"You have no culture of your own, everything you stand for is stolen and illegitimate." "Your history is oppressive and you aren't entitled to write it." "Your group has never contributed anything to wider society. You don't deserve to be in it." "Your politics are inherently evil, you should be silenced for the greater good."
The next stage pushes the target group into dehumanization: "If your group is evil, worthless, filthy, and irredeemable, why should society tolerate you at all? You're not one of us, you're subhuman."
Organized extermination of an entire ethnic, political, or social group never arises spontaneously, it requires several stages of conditioning the greater public.
It starts with scapegoating: constantly turning a target group into the fall-guy to distract from an ongoing revolution. Expect to be the butt of cheap jokes, blamed for vague crimes, and expected to accept shame and humiliation. Kulaks, Jews, bourgeosis, have all started off here at various times.
It continues with a stronger push for de-legitimization:"You have no culture of your own, everything you stand for is stolen and illegitimate." "Your history is oppressive and you aren't entitled to write it." "Your group has never contributed anything to wider society. You don't deserve to be in it." "Your politics are inherently evil, you should be silenced for the greater good."
The next stage pushes the target group into dehumanization: "If your group is evil, worthless, filthy, and irredeemable, why should society tolerate you at all? You're not one of us, you're subhuman."
The final stage is obvious.