It’s a known fact that atrocities in a war are more likely to occur when the each warring side demonizes and dehumanizes their adversary. This is most easily done when racial or ethnic or religious differences can be highlighted.
It’s hard to torture someone who looks just like you, but if their appearance, their skin tone, their language, their religion or even their tribal identification is different it becomes much easier to rationalize brutal methods, the indiscriminate use of torture, and the murder of innocent civilians. The more one can turn the “enemy people” into things, subhumans, godless, etc., the easier it is to hate them, and the easier it is to kill, maim, gas, burn, beat their legs into pulp and even irradiate them.
What follows are various quotes, some of which are from America’s past, modified to replace the name of our former “enemy” with the current one, and some of which are very, very recent, but all of which, at heart, are racist and dehumanizing. See if you can identify those which are current and those which come from an earlier era:
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Kill Hadjis, kills Hadjis, kill more Hadjis!
These are facts which we shall ignore or minimize at our peril. It is the fact that since the outbreak of the War on Terror there has been no important sabotage on the Pacific Coast. From what we know about Britain and about the fifth column in Europe, this is not, as some have liked to think, a sign that there is nothing to be feared. It is a sign that the blow is well organized and that it is held back until it can be struck with maximum effect .
“I don’t want any of Muslims here. They are a dangerous element. There is no way to determine their loyalty…It makes no difference whether he is an American citizen, he is still a Muslim. American citizenship does not necessarily determine loyalty…
“If all the Camel Jockeys were removed tomorrow, we’d never miss them in two weeks …”
No Muslims were “innocent” you idiot. They were all mindless thralls willing to die for Allah.
You see, the animals that we’re not supposed to inconvenience in any shape, form or fashion, the worthless, disease-ridden subhuman slime that our Supreme Whores just saw fit to endow with all of the protections of the Geneva Conventions, just released a video of what they did to prisoners they’d taken.
Militant Islam has been very successful today infiltrating the free democracies. To a large extent, Muslims who immigrate to non-Muslim countries do not assimilate. And encouraged by many of the countries they emigrate to who hold high the scared banner of cultural diversity, Muslims feel no need to assimilate into their guest countries society. Even to the effect of setting up separate enclaves where even the police of the guest countries are afraid to enter.
[T]he sadistic cruelty of the Islamofascists, who kill their captives for no apparent purpose other than to satisfy their blood-lust.
When this war is over, Arabic will be spoken only in hell.
Perhaps the most difficult and delicate question that confronts our powers that be is the handling–the safe and proper treatment–of Arabs, our Arab-American citizens by the accident of birth. But who are Muslims nevertheless. A snake is nonetheless a snake wherever the egg is hatched.
“But to call Islam what it is — a bloodthirsty cult of violence, murder and death right out of the 8th century — isn’t very politically correct now, is it?”
If we lose the war to the Islamofascists, it will be because the politically correct crowd has undermined America’s will to win and replaced it with an appeasement mentality that hopes to “go along, get along.”
I make the case that nuking Mecca would be a rational deterrent to radical Islamists bent on killing American civilians. However, even if there is no deterrent effect, attacking Mecca and wiping out the central locus of Islamic ritual worship may be in the long-term interests of the US and Occidental world.
Remember 9/11 — Keep em dying.
Kill Japs, kills Japs, kill more Japs! (Admiral William F. “Bull” Halsey)
[T]he sadistic cruelty of the Japs, who kill an innocent native boy and a wounded American Naval Officer for no apparent purpose other than to satisfy their blood-lust. (Description of scene in movie, Menace of the Rising Sun)
When this war is over, the Japanese language will be spoken only in hell. (Halsey)
Perhaps the most difficult and delicate question that confronts our powers that be is the handling–the safe and proper treatment–of our American-born Japanese, our Japanese-American citizens by the accident of birth. But who are Japanese nevertheless. A viper is nonetheless a viper wherever the egg is hatched. (WH Anderson)
These are facts which we shall ignore or minimize at our peril. It is the fact that since the outbreak of the Japanese war there has been no important sabotage on the Pacific Coast. From what we know about Hawaii and about the fifth column in Europe, this is not, as some have liked to think, a sign that there is nothing to be feared. It is a sign that the blow is well organized and that it is held back until it can be struck with maximum effect . (Walter Lippmann)
“I don’t want any of them [persons of Japanese ancestry] here. They are a dangerous element. There is no way to determine their loyalty…It makes no difference whether he is an American citizen, he is still a Japanese. American citizenship does not necessarily determine loyalty…But we must worry about the Japanese all the time until he is wiped off the map.” (Lt. Gen. John L. Dewitt)
“If all the Japs were removed tomorrow, we’d never miss them in two weeks …” (Unidentified California farmer in 1942)
No Japanese were “innocent” back then you idiot. They were all mindless thralls willing to die for their emperor. (Comment at Wizbang)
“But to call Islam what it is — a bloodthirsty cult of violence, murder and death right out of the 8th century — isn’t very politically correct now, is it?”
If we lose the war to the Islamofascists, it will be because the politically correct crowd has undermined America’s will to win and replaced it with an appeasement mentality that hopes to “go along, get along.” (Texas Hold `Em Blogger)
Militant Islam has been very successful today infiltrating the free democracies. To a large extent, Muslims who immigrate to non-Muslim countries do not assimilate. And encouraged by many of the countries they emigrate to who hold high the scared banner of cultural diversity, Muslims feel no need to assimilate into their guest countries society. Even to the effect of setting up separate enclaves where even the police of the guest countries are afraid to enter. (Infidel Bloggers Alliance)
You see, the animals that we’re not supposed to inconvenience in any shape, form or fashion, the worthless, disease-ridden subhuman slime that our Supreme Whores just saw fit to endow with all of the protections of the Geneva Conventions, just released a video of what they did to prisoners they’d taken. (Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiller)
Remeber Pearl Harbor — and keep em dying. (Halsey)
One more:
I make the case that nuking Mecca would be a rational deterrent to radical Islamists bent on using WMD against American civilians. However, even if there is no deterrent effect, attacking Mecca and wiping out the central locus of Islamic ritual worship may be in the long-term interests of the US and Occidental world.
(from the website, A CHRISTIAN REVIEW OF BAD RELIGIONS AND BELIEFS)
I’ve posted on this subject today as well. I’m very concerned about the resurgence of this hate propaganda.
And these diatribes aren’t only aimed at those specific races/ethnicities/nationalities, but at anyone and everyone who could be mistaken for them. Like me. If my yellow face [Korean decent] was in California a few decades ago, my ass would’ve been rounded up along with anyone who looked vaguely Japanese.
Nah, You’re too handsome Albert. They would have let you be a Admiral for Japan in Midway or some other groovy movie…
I can’t argue with that. Speaking of Asians in film. I watched Lady in the Water and was shocked and very happy to see a Korean character actually played by a Korean actor. The most key part of it was the Korean actor speaking Korean and not a Japanese/Chinese/Thai… person trying to phonetically pull it off.
What is politically correct is ascribing humane traits to a very vile animal; the tribal need to credit all goodness to ones relatives.
The WAPO today has an science article on the Anglo Saxon invasion that said an apartheid regime, in which the invaders restricted intermarriage and instituted a brutal system of exploitation such that Anglo-Saxon offspring were far more likely to survive into adulthood than the children of local Britons, who were then called Welshmen. Europeans did an even better job in North America.
The White House has reverted back to its European native roots and is intent on killing all radical Muslims. The Lebanon attack is just a prelude to the Iran Campaign. The strategic mistake the GOP makes is not thinking their beliefs to the logical conclusions. The successful campaigns of the past had the survivors herded into Wales or Indian Reservations. If the USA is really intent on killing Muslims, millions of boots on the ground from Morocco to the Philippines and lots of strategic hamlets are required. Or just maybe, a nuclear Armageddon is the GOP’s ultimate goal.
From just Afghanistan, we now have Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, and London as fronts on in the war on terror. This is real progress.