How does genocide happen?

Fat Tony@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world – 78 points –

I can get behind murder. I feel like this, to some extend, is a genuine part of human behaviour. Even the horrific aftermath of such. But genocide truly feels inhuman to me. So I can never fundamentally understand how in history, civilizations went from point A to point B to Point Genocide. Any thoughts on this?

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I can get behind murder.

LMAO I was not ready for that. Anyway, genocide is usually the result of a group of people being blamed for another's problems. Once the blaming starts, it's easy to dehumanize them to the point where it makes sense to get rid of them.

Granted, I could've phrased that little better ๐Ÿ˜….

No itโ€™s perfect. Your profile picture and username only serves to make it better.