I mean yea, that’s usually how it goes. You start with the racism first to build an enemy. Use that as an excuse to gather power and manufacture consent. The genocide is just an after thought to the people in power but it’s part of the whole shebang.
My default position is that the average person is okay with genocide regardless of who is being genocided as long as those people are far away and don’t impact their lives. Caring about people you have never met is not a default human response.
because all things equal it’s easier to get your country to support funding genocide of the other
Sure. But does this additional ease move the needle from impossible to possible? My intuition is that it does not.
I mean yea, that’s usually how it goes. You start with the racism first to build an enemy. Use that as an excuse to gather power and manufacture consent. The genocide is just an after thought to the people in power but it’s part of the whole shebang.
My default position is that the average person is okay with genocide regardless of who is being genocided as long as those people are far away and don’t impact their lives. Caring about people you have never met is not a default human response.
that’s true until they see it on tv / in person
they are only far away if they are out of mind
but if you precondition your population to see them as vermin fist it softens the horror