Written by Phillip Zimbardo is a disturbing look at the
human experience and horrific book at the same time. He speaks about many
different things and the worst of those are that those who do the worst evil
are ordinary people. People who have families children and so on but they do
the worst crimes against humanity.
He notes that there are seven social processes that grease
the slippery slope of evil:
·
Mindlessly taking the first
small steps
People who were experiments were not
encouraged to those who they were experimenting on large electrical shocks to
begin with but rather they were given small shocks and then the line was
crossed then they kept going until abuse occurred. In the Stanford prison experiment
abuse of the prisoners occurred because they were stopped by making the prisoners
do press ups, from here the abuse continued.
- · Dehumanisation of others
This is
happening now to Muslims what happened to the Jews. Almost the entire media blames all Muslims for the actions
of a few, which in itself is a great injustice. The dehumanisation of Muslims has lead to attacks on innocent individuals
and groups. This how the holocaust
started by dehumanising the Jews.
- · De-individuation of the self (anonymity)
Social
media is not a nice place for Muslims because anyone posts any hate or racist message without the social media doing
anything about it, nothing at all. So in fact social
media is also responsible for the rise of the far right. None have been
recently punished for race hate.
- · Diffusion of personal responsibility
So the power that it over them controls so they
do not feel responsible for their actions.
- · Blind obedience to authority
They never
question authority and accuse that they are right and how wrong can they be when any political leader can spew
race hate at Muslims. Not only can he keep his job without reprimand, he will run for re-election! In the Rwandan
genocide, the authorities compared
their neighbours to cockroaches and they said should you not kill them? Ordinary people were given knifes
and machetes and almost a million innocent people were killed.
- · Uncritical conformity to group norms
How many people get caught up in group mentalities
who drive people to commit crimes against humanity? Not to make himself be
different he just sits and agrees to be part of the group, even though the
group is wrong.
- · Passive tolerance of evil through inaction or indifference
This is perhaps the worst thing of all as
an innocent female Muslim might be shopping with her child and is abused by someone.
The people present do nothing because it is nothing to do with them. This is
passive or inactive type of racism. Even though they are not racist, themselves
their silence when they should be speaking means they agree.
Genocide is happening of Muslims all over
the world and the things that have happened are patterns that repeat themselves,
repeatedly. Because humanity does not learn that dehumanising, someone is the
first step to murder and genocide. I hope you all are listening and we must
stop this nonsense now. All people have the right to live without harassment
and in honour.
He called the Lucifer effect after satan
who did the first evil act, then mankind followed his wretched example.
Reference
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsFEV35tWsg
