Washington Post use of rat imagery to depict Trump supporters is defined as one of “Ten Stages of Genocide:” The powerful group equates the victim group “with animals, vermin, insects or diseases”

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From “Ten Stages of Genocide:" “Classification and symbolization are universally human and do not necessarily result in genocide unless they lead to dehumanization….Dehumanization: One group denies the humanity of the other group. Members of it are equated with animals, vermin, insects or diseases.…Hate propaganda in print…is used to vilify the victim group…Polarization: Extremists drive the groups apart. Hate groups broadcast polarizing propaganda. Motivations for targeting a group are indoctrinated through mass media….Acts of genocide demonstrate how dehumanized the victims have become....Destruction of cultural and religious property is employed to annihilate the group’s existence from history….DENIAL is the final stage that lasts throughout and always follows genocide….They deny that they committed any crimes, and often blame what happened on the victims. They block investigations of the crimes, and continue to govern.”…GenocideWatch, Gregory H. Stanton, Pres.

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12/20/20, “Washington Post uses Nazi anti-semitic rat imagery for Trump supporters in cartoon,” Steve Milloy, Junk Science

“We report. You decide. Compare today’s Washington Post cartoon by Pulitzer Prize-winner Ann Telnaes with the one published on February 2, 1939 in the Viennese newspaper in Das Kleine Blatt.

Here’s the [Dec. 18] WaPo cartoon…

And here’s the Nazi newspaper cartoon…

And [WaPo cartoonist] Telnaes was proud of her work.

Here is the WaPo link for the cartoon.

“Democracy dies in darkness.” Indeed. The WaPo is very dark.”

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Added: Raphael Lemkin, inventor of the term “genocide” defines it as follows: genocidewatch.net

“Lemkin defined genocide as follows:”

“Generally speaking, genocide does not necessarily mean the immediate destruction of a nation, except when accomplished by mass killings of all members of a nation. It is intended rather to signify a coordinated plan of different actions aiming at the destruction of essential foundations of the life of national groups, with the aim of annihilating the groups themselves. The objectives of such a plan would be the disintegration of the political and social institutions, of culture, language, national feelings, religion, and the economic existence of national groups, and the destruction of the personal security, liberty, health, dignity, and even the lives of the individuals belonging to such groups.”

 

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