This guy named Ben Palmer made an "Immigration tip line" and people call it thinking he's ICE.
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Fittingly, and not surprisingly, it stems from the Holocaust.
Taken from #wikipedia :
'"Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil" is a 1963 book by the philosopher and political thinker Hannah Arendt. Arendt, a Jew who fled Germany during Hitler's rise to power, reported on the trial of Adolf Eichmann, one of the major organizers of the Holocaust....
'Her thesis is that Eichmann was actually not a fanatic or a sociopath, but an average & mundane person who relied on clichéd defenses rather than thinking for himself, was motivated by professional promotion rather than ideology, and believed in success which he considered the chief standard of "good society". Banality, in this sense, doesn't mean his actions were in any way ordinary, but that they were motivated by a sort of complacency which was wholly unexceptional.'
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Is not like they call in, crying and in distress having been menaced by some horrible gang— no it’s a literal child trying their best to learn the damn alphabet— and this lady is like “oh he’s kinda different better call the government”
@futurebird but it's a great idea, a honey pot for fascists - to make them realize what ugly attitude they have. It might work with some people to reflect what they've been thinking, doing.
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@axebos @riggbeck @futurebird You do understand that Ben Palmer is a satirist? He's not actually turning people in to ICE.
@PattyHanson @riggbeck @futurebird
Okey. In the film clip, it looks more like he's spreading racist content...
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@aeischeid @spreadthetruth @MisuseCase
The worst thing I ever heard a teacher say about students was this veteran NYC public school teacher in the Bronx who said "well you know they are from the crack baby generation that's why they can't concentrate"
No. They can't concentrate because they are 6th graders in a class with 32 students.
That is too many sixth graders. Have you met one? I have. Under 20 ALWAYS.
I yelled at him and he walked it back.
@aeischeid @spreadthetruth @MisuseCase @futurebird I had 17 x 7th graders in a really rough place. That was hard enough. I honestly can't imagine 32?!?!?! Jeeeeeez.
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'Her thesis is that Eichmann was actually not a fanatic or a sociopath, but an average & mundane person who relied on clichéd defenses rather than thinking for himself, was motivated by professional promotion rather than ideology, and believed in success which he considered the chief standard of "good society". Banality, in this sense, doesn't mean his actions were in any way ordinary, but that they were motivated by a sort of complacency which was wholly unexceptional.'
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@edgeofeurope @futurebird Actually the people who ran the Nazi camps were not ordinary people, they were hardcore followers. And they didn't just obeyed "superior orders", they made the decisions they rightfully assumed were required the whole nazi project. Not to say ordinary people played no part, of course. But what Arendt called "banality of evil" is quite misleading.
@ratel @edgeofeurope @futurebird
We shouldn't underestimate the part ordinary people played.
When ~ 300 Sowiet inmates fled concentration camp Mauthausen in February 1945, part of them asked for help at local farms and most were reported.
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This guy named Ben Palmer made an "Immigration tip line" and people call it thinking he's ICE.
He records them and shares it with the world.
What do people sound like when reporting their neighbors, coworkers, students? Are they confident they are doing a righteous good thing?
Witness the banality of evil in these sheepish suburban voices.
@futurebird "you make it sound terrible" jesus christ, not a hint of self-awareness.
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@Mab_813 @edgeofeurope @futurebird The fact that people back then knew way more than they said afterwards (as P. Longerich showed) and that consequently they did play a part in all this (out of cruelty, opportunism and - often silent - acceptance) doesn't mean there aren't a few critical steps from being an ordinary citizen to being one of those defining the rules. It's an important fact if one is to grasp how decision making in highest level and widespread complicity were working together.
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This guy named Ben Palmer made an "Immigration tip line" and people call it thinking he's ICE.
He records them and shares it with the world.
What do people sound like when reporting their neighbors, coworkers, students? Are they confident they are doing a righteous good thing?
Witness the banality of evil in these sheepish suburban voices.
“How could ordinary Germans act that way?“ said white Americans unironically.
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@Mab_813 @edgeofeurope @futurebird The fact that people back then knew way more than they said afterwards (as P. Longerich showed) and that consequently they did play a part in all this (out of cruelty, opportunism and - often silent - acceptance) doesn't mean there aren't a few critical steps from being an ordinary citizen to being one of those defining the rules. It's an important fact if one is to grasp how decision making in highest level and widespread complicity were working together.
@Mab_813 @edgeofeurope @futurebird besides, the way most people understand what Arendt called "banality of evil" is often used by ordinary people to litteraly excuse evil by "confessing" that in the same situation they would have done the same as those in higher position, thus dangerously making evil "acceptable". "This is evil !"
️ "Would I have done better ? Maybe not, as I too am an ordinary guy." ️ "This is still evil but, hey, we're just human beings." ️ "I guess it's ok." -
This guy named Ben Palmer made an "Immigration tip line" and people call it thinking he's ICE.
He records them and shares it with the world.
What do people sound like when reporting their neighbors, coworkers, students? Are they confident they are doing a righteous good thing?
Witness the banality of evil in these sheepish suburban voices.
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This guy named Ben Palmer made an "Immigration tip line" and people call it thinking he's ICE.
He records them and shares it with the world.
What do people sound like when reporting their neighbors, coworkers, students? Are they confident they are doing a righteous good thing?
Witness the banality of evil in these sheepish suburban voices.
I don't want to boost this post because the implications are too horrible.
I just want everyone to mentally change the words "illegal" to "Jew" in your heads and "taxpayer" to "Aryan," and you will see that state of the country.
I have heard this rhetoric before, from my grandparents generation (German/Austrian). Some of them where Nazi's but most where just ordinary folks that listened to the government. I feel like a lot of Americans forget that this is what enabled the Nazi's to do want they did.
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@Mab_813 @edgeofeurope @futurebird besides, the way most people understand what Arendt called "banality of evil" is often used by ordinary people to litteraly excuse evil by "confessing" that in the same situation they would have done the same as those in higher position, thus dangerously making evil "acceptable". "This is evil !"
️ "Would I have done better ? Maybe not, as I too am an ordinary guy." ️ "This is still evil but, hey, we're just human beings." ️ "I guess it's ok."@ratel @edgeofeurope @futurebird
But it's a complete logical fallacy by these people to claim that something is ok just because it's widespread.
Were many people nazis here in Austria?
yes
Was it ok?
noAnd it's not an argument I ever heard regarding nazis here. People prefer to think that they would have heroically hidden these victims in February 1945 (something very few people actually did, some forced laborers and local farmers), people here aren't running around declaring "Yes, I would also have handed them over to the authorities for certain death or killed them myself".
Hitlerjugend boys took part in the killings, they might still be around. Maybe I met one of them at the doctor or in the grocery store? an ordinary, very old guy? It's possible. -
This guy named Ben Palmer made an "Immigration tip line" and people call it thinking he's ICE.
He records them and shares it with the world.
What do people sound like when reporting their neighbors, coworkers, students? Are they confident they are doing a righteous good thing?
Witness the banality of evil in these sheepish suburban voices.
@futurebird ask any German that lived thru the 3 Reich or the DDR/GDR, these types of people are everywhere. Feared by both, supporters and opponents of the regime. Because they could ruin everyone’s life
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Is not like they call in, crying and in distress having been menaced by some horrible gang— no it’s a literal child trying their best to learn the damn alphabet— and this lady is like “oh he’s kinda different better call the government”
@futurebird What also disturbs me is the twisting of what was actually said at the end. She literally framed the situation, as if she was preventing him from doing something bad. WTF.
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@ratel @edgeofeurope @futurebird
But it's a complete logical fallacy by these people to claim that something is ok just because it's widespread.
Were many people nazis here in Austria?
yes
Was it ok?
noAnd it's not an argument I ever heard regarding nazis here. People prefer to think that they would have heroically hidden these victims in February 1945 (something very few people actually did, some forced laborers and local farmers), people here aren't running around declaring "Yes, I would also have handed them over to the authorities for certain death or killed them myself".
Hitlerjugend boys took part in the killings, they might still be around. Maybe I met one of them at the doctor or in the grocery store? an ordinary, very old guy? It's possible.@Mab_813 @edgeofeurope @futurebird It's a complete fallacy but it works on many, many people (and in France, where I live, it certainly plays a part in normalizing far-right ideas).
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This guy named Ben Palmer made an "Immigration tip line" and people call it thinking he's ICE.
He records them and shares it with the world.
What do people sound like when reporting their neighbors, coworkers, students? Are they confident they are doing a righteous good thing?
Witness the banality of evil in these sheepish suburban voices.
@futurebird she (the teacher in the video) does not sound very bright. as if she's just picked up this horrible idea somewhere and accepted it without examining it.
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This guy named Ben Palmer made an "Immigration tip line" and people call it thinking he's ICE.
He records them and shares it with the world.
What do people sound like when reporting their neighbors, coworkers, students? Are they confident they are doing a righteous good thing?
Witness the banality of evil in these sheepish suburban voices.
der größte lump im ganzen land, das ist und bleibt der denunziant!
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@PhilGopon @futurebird yeah, or substitute "slaves" and "plantation owners".
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@futurebird well, that's probably how fasiscm worked in Germany and my country, Austria, some 80 years ago.
Humans can be that cruel.@mcnknopp @futurebird When I watch, read or hear about such atrocities, it is shocking, yet totally not surprising me.
That's why Hannah Arendt's concept of „The Banality of Evil“ still is one of the most disturbing, yet eye-opening works about exactly this.The British Academy: "Hannah Arendt's lessons for our times: the banality of evil, totalitarianism and statelessness" by Prof. Lyndsey Stonebridge:
https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/blog/hannah-arendts-lessons-for-our-times-the-banality-of-evil-totalitarianism-and-statelessness/
