Where Demonizing And Blaming Leads, Jews And Tutsis

 People make choices, including whether or not to bully, to scapegoat, to demonize, to rape, to murder. The people that demonize and harm others often render themselves blame free by blaming the targets or victims of their hate for the sins and crimes they themselves commit

It does not take much for the most basic laws and moral codes known to humankind to be tossed aside. Too often religion, rather than being the moral code and guide it should be, instead is used to facilitate the hate, demonization and bigotry that leads to actual crimes against humanity.

When demonization and dehumanization of another group of people occurs, what happens next depends on circumstances and opportunity. Demonization and dehumanization will always lead to rape, torture and murder if opportunity and circumstances allow for it. 

If Hitler and the Nazis did not gain power over one of the world's most advanced countries, Hitler would be an unknown, another dime a dozen deranged Jew hater. 

If genocidal Hutus did not gain control of Rwanda, there would not have been the mass slaughter of Tutsis, committed mostly by hacking people to death with machetes. 

Prior to the genocide, the Tutsis were demonized and dehumanized. A Hutu that was genocidal would have given a thousand reasons why the Tutsis needed to be slaughtered, just as the slaughterers of Jews justified their crimes. Demonization and dehumanization of one group or another continues to this day.  Whether rape, murder and genocide results depends on the ability of those that demonize to carry out their demonic desires.

The Rwandan genocide did not stop in Rwanda. The conflict moved into the already troubled Democratic Republic of the Congo, where over six million people have already been murdered, and where rape and torture have been widespread.  

The need by many to scapegoat, to have a target to blame for everything perceived as wrong, is an enormous human weakness and form of evil. 

The unwillingness by many to challenge those that hate and demonize enables this evil to go unchecked.

It does not take much to descend from bigotry, hate and demonization into crimes against humanity. History proves this again and again, right up to the present time. 

 

Bigotry, Racism, Anti-Jew Hate And The Gangster Rap Blame Game

 On top of all the other things already blamed on Jews, some are now trying to blame gangster rap on Jews. Do rappers that use derogatory words have guns to their heads by Jews forcing them to say these terrible things? Are they helpless victims controlled by evil Jews? This concept of a Jew being behind everything evil is an ancient anti-Semitic trope. Grown men and women are responsible for their own actions. Blaming others, including blaming Jews, instead of taking responsibility for our own actions, keeps hate, bigotry and evil alive. If someone was harmed by an evil man that happens to be Jewish, that is a reflection of that evil man, not Jews. Demonizing all Jews based on the actions or fantasized actions of a few is as old as anti-Semitism, or Jew hatred itself. We are responsible for our own actions in life. We are not responsible for the bad things that other grown men and women choose to do when we have no knowledge or ability to stop what they are doing.. Ascribing some kind of collective responsibility and blame by virtue of race, religion or ethnicity, in which the whole group is blamed for the real or imagined actions of the few, is an ancient form of hatred and bigotry. If your own brother, sister, or other family member, went out tomorrow and started killing people without your knowledge or ability to stop it, would that make you responsible because of the family blood connection? Or because you might both be of the same race, religion or ethnicity? 

It would not.

Having  a scapegoat, having someone to blame for all the evils or perceived evils and wrongs in the world, is a human weakness, and an ancient, still going strong, form of evil.

 For every evil, racist Jew, there were and are far more Jews that do everything they can to fight racism, evil and bigotry. The bigot wants to ignore all of that. They only want a demonized Jew.