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Explain Like I'm Five

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ELI5 How come it seems now the old wise tale of Vietnamese eating pets and now its immigrants into the USA? (lemmy.world)
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[–] Unquote0270@programming.dev 25 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Dehumanising people makes it easy to hate and persecute them, and to blame them for a bunch of stuff which isn't their fault. It really is a classic move with a rich history.

[–] Don_Dickle@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I was discussing this with my mom over the phone and we kind of both were wondering if this is the playbook that Hitler used.