Mya88,
kadame misunderstood me and she withdrew/apologized. She thought I was making humour out of Fidel's demise.
Termie,
I agree with you totally. There is a guy called Emmanuel Eni back in the 80s who wrote about his life as a satanist before converting to Christianity. He said they used to turn human flesh and blood into goat meat or something else to make it easier to eat. When Muslims go about butchering kaffirs, they are first convinced that these are subhuman unworthy of existence. In both cases, dehumanizing happens in the mind first. Once that is done, you would not hesitate to burn a fellow human alive. PEV too. The reason the two are on trial is because dehumanizing is not spontaneous; it takes time and Vague's idea is that the two were behind the planning and conditioning...
I use these tribal terms loosely for good and for evil and for fun without a care in this world and I have never been convinced they subtract nothing from my point. But times have changed. There is a university that found itself on the wrongside of political correctness; Inoorero University. The name is Embu or Okoyu and after PEV it could not attract nobody outside GEMA.
I will work on it if for no other reason than Veritas put up this forum to discuss real issues not vooke
Dehumanization of people can happen when real interaction with their group is non-existent. When you don't interact with people, you are more vulnerable to seeing them in caricature. A common trait I noticed at the restroom.
I am not saying vooke is a case study. I actually don't think he dehumanizes so much as being non-politically correct. But sometimes he does bring in tribe in a manner that leaves one puzzled. The one case in mind I remember is the Idiot fellow who killed his wife in a perfectly domestic quarrel, the type that no tribe has a monopoly, real or perceived, on.