"It is indeed a terrorist operation, but I call it a cleansing war"
(Tarant)
Within a few hours of the live broadcast of the tragic incident that killed nearly 50 New Zealand Muslims at the Al-Nour Mosque in Christchurch, which was carried out by the far-right terrorist Brenton Tarant, all social media departments pulled out any possible copies of the video Because of his extreme cruelty, in the video .. The killer set the camera at an angle where it appears to be standing in the yard of one of the electronic games, and all those who run left and right are units of the army of enemies.
Get rid of kebabs
There is no doubt that what happened hours ago, and its spread on the Internet in this way, will be a transitional sign in our history for a long time, not because of the large number of victims, or because of the nature of the process itself, which is repeated at an increasing rate gradually in previous years, but because of the clarity of this idea The time, "Tarrant" - simply - did not deal with these people as human beings, it was evident in all his remarks during the video ("to start the party"), but treated with them as "things", things in an electronic game, On the PUBG game, things do not differ much in nature from a set of h Rat Kabasir, or midwife for hunting animals.
Cockroaches, we have heard this word before, do you remember it? In Rwanda between April 2 and July 1994, when the Hutu tribes, through the army and private militias, began to kill all Tutsi hands, during that massacre Hutu extremists set up radio stations to spread hatred and anger against the Tutsis, the most frequent and repeated sentence of hundreds of times In one day: "get rid of cockroaches", which killed about a million people and raped hundreds of thousands of women, most of the killings were by the foot, it is one of the most brutal human massacres at all.
Can we link the quote "Get rid of cockroaches" and another entitled "Get rid of kebab Remove Kebab"? The video begins with the terrorist incident of "Tarrant" in his car, but did you notice that? In the background we can hear what Tarant is preoccupied with. It is one of the most famous songs in the history of the massacres: "Get rid of kebab", a popular "meme" that now refers to the ethnic cleansing directed specifically against the Bosniac Turks (kebab as an Arab Islamic meal) And followers of Islam in general.
Karadzic killed thousands of innocent Muslims in 1995 in one of the most brutal and horrific massacres to date, which included, beside Acts of direct and organized physical liquidation, deportations and inhumane acts against the Muslims of Bosnia and Herzegovina, such as severe torture and sexual assault by direct orders from Karadzic, putting people in prison and leaving them to die, eat them very slowly.
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The port of the attack on the mosque in New Zealand
But, how can this happen? How does it come to someone to deal with others like a bunch of cockroaches or pieces of kebabs that are not important to their lives at all? Human beings have grown up to sanctify the social entity as part of the instinct to stay by sex and the need for food. Murder is a very high leap that can easily be carried out in that image only when you lose the ability to launch the word "human" on someone, ?
Several years ago, Qin Bozhong and Katie Lilienkewist, a psychology specialist, experimented with a new experiment. There are two groups of individuals who speak with the first group about ordinary things, such as university life. After the experiment, each of the groups is presented with pens or wipes as a gift. The normal result in a random sample is that half of the people take napkins, the other half pens, But you may be surprised when you discover that most of those present For the second experiment they would like to get napkins and not pens.
Humans are able to use the idea of "metaphor" biologically because of activation of the area of the brain called the frontal cortex. In previous experiments, which are just one example of a large scale record of substantial results, people took napkins because they wanted to get rid of their sins by scanning them, as if the handkerchief was a symbol of disinfection through the survey, other experiments tested the participants' desire to wash their hands or shower after similar conversations. In the end, we can easily encode the world around us, and deal with those symbols as facts, but worst of all, it may take a catastrophic turn, because we might easily kill for our ability to encode others, like cockroaches or useless kebabs .
However, our question remains, how can a person reach that situation? There are billions of people in the world, they do not kill indiscriminately every day, at that point we can contemplate what Thomas Geelovich and Lee Ross of Stanford call "The Wisest One in the Room" "Naive realism 5", the tendency of man to believe that he sees the world objectively and correctly, and that any "normal" person is supposed to see the world in the same way, otherwise it is wrong.
It goes further than that, where we sometimes put "those" who do not agree with our opinions and convictions in a special list we call "them", that group "different from us", biased, ignorant, irrational, (See), while we are rational, more efficient and experienced, and then we begin to define the advantages of our own group and its rationality as opposed to irrationality, stupidity, and the arrogance of the other group that conspires against us. Their humanity from them, we will call them - at a later stage - the titles of the world of animals and things, We call them "cockroaches" or "kebabs," and after removing the humanity of any human being that becomes available throughout the history of the planet, these ideas have - and still are - the most serious massacres in human history.
Where do we live today?
Where do we live today? In social and cognitive psychology, we learn that human beings are not completely rational, and that their preferences are primarily based on their political and religious affiliations. There is a degree of "tribalism" in our thinking, where our affiliation helps us to define our identities and our sense of our selves. , Which can be more important to us than precision in an issue, even if precision is usually important to us. Here, we will tend to believe ideas that are in line with the views of our party, however unreasonable.
But, on the other hand, we also know that it is possible to control this degree of bias, we can act rationally, or correct our mistakes whenever we occur. For example, in the experiments of Phil Wernbach 6 of the University of Bonn in 2013, it was clear that those who were defined by the facts, calmly and rationally, clearly retracted their extremism, and the experiences of Amos Tversky and his colleagues in the 1990s proved that, It was the most "pleasant" when it was presented to the public calmly, but it only happens in normal times, times of stability, but what we are going through now, in this world, is quite the opposite.
When the extreme right-wing voices, those who call for racial superiority over others and religions over others and cultures on the other, that are scattered with comments and references from every corner towards certain groups of people as less in intelligence, experience and gentleness, fall the hair of high rationality that binds us to reality , How can you act if the message someone gives you daily is that this immigrant will steal your money, steal your wife, steal your business? Do you think there is any difference between messages like "get rid of cockroaches" or "get rid of kebabs" and those seen by a European, American or Australian citizen on television and on the media.
In any country in the world, including our Arab states, an unknown soldier in an extremist attack army may become an immigrant or a divergent opinion or belief at any moment, and although the jump from a casual person to a murderer requires many other criteria, That such messages raise the possibility of this happening the limit of the sky, and extends to include blacks, women, refugees, minorities, etc., now let's reflect one of the statements, "Brenton Tarant" in the video of the disastrous incident:
"Remember, guys, take part in the PewDiePie channel"
What is Bio-Day-Bay? Felix Arvid Ulf Schalberg founded the channel nine years ago, Schalberg is a "Utopar" and a comedian and commentator of Swedish video games, the attention of the world, his videos exceeded 20 billion views on YouTube, and his main audience of teenagers, but .. Is not it strange to pay "Tarrant "People in the event of that freak to subscribe to a channel like this? Is it related to the gaming world? Perhaps, but we also know that Schalberg is accused of marketing racist content on more than one occasion, most recently just a year ago when he promoted another YouTube channel that also promotes racial content that speaks of white supremacy over other races.
It is the same message again, but this time it is the intervention of millions of homes in the world, not only to the elderly, but also to a teenager of a very critical age. As this kind of extremist message rises in the world, we can only expect more chaos in all aspects , And with the rise of the right in an era that many have called "Post Truth Era," we can only expect more lies, more exclusion, more radical racist sentences only for political gain.
In his own collection of experiments, several decades ago, Emil Bruno 10 of the MIT Institute, a teacher who served as a volunteer for social and medical services in war zones and then turned to study the psychology of political conflict, Extremism The degree of sympathy of others towards others in the case of political differences has fallen, to the degree of happiness in the death of others! The problem we face today is not just a right-wing terrorist who kills 50 people in a mosque after Friday prayers, the problem of the horrendous numbers of those who have been indoctrinated with all kinds of extremist messages over the years. Those who shout after the incident: "Bravo, Tarant, get rid of kebabs"