This same attitude seems to live on in Wahabbi Arabic culture, though the notion of others as subhumans is also extended to Africans (witness Darfur). The discussion of Jews as responsible for all ills is endemic in the Arab press. It's not just Al-Jazeera, but Al-Arabiya and the Saudi press in general.
But it's too easy to say this is just German culture. It's very human. The same attitude was central to both American slavery and Jim Crow. It's not hard for me to imagine this sort of instititionalized racism, since its traces still haunt America today.
Fortunately, people of good will now rage against racism, and the past few generations in the US and Germany have striven to stamp it out. The pro-torture lobby in the US is one of the few places that I think the argument for others as subhuman still holds sway.
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Date: 2006-09-18 01:37 am (UTC)But it's too easy to say this is just German culture. It's very human. The same attitude was central to both American slavery and Jim Crow. It's not hard for me to imagine this sort of instititionalized racism, since its traces still haunt America today.
Fortunately, people of good will now rage against racism, and the past few generations in the US and Germany have striven to stamp it out. The pro-torture lobby in the US is one of the few places that I think the argument for others as subhuman still holds sway.