cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/26226120
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17887604
“Children have been shot in other conflicts I have covered. But never before have I watched as soldiers enticed children like mice into a trap and murdered them for sport.”
- Christopher Hedges American journalist on assignment in Gaza
That’s how it works. That’s always how it works.
Did every Nazi soldier hate Jews, blacks, gays, Roma, etc? No, of course not. Plenty probably were just hometown soldiers doing what they thought they could. But the atrocities continued regardless, because over time all non-Aryan groups were dehumanized so thoroughly that obviously this isn’t a human standing in front of me, it’s a Bolshevik.
I’m terribly sorry for what is happening to your people and I promise (for what tiny little it’s worth) this rural American has your back