Dehumanisation is necessary, both in war or internal protests. How can you kill somebody like you, with giving him any defence, if not thinking he is not like you, he's a middle Easter terrorist and Islamic, wanting war and not democracy, someone awful, the worst person in the world, maybe even not a person.
No, you have no other choice. In the same way, if you don't say that the protesters are violent, drug addicted boy, extremist, people will look at them and see they are like them, with the same idea and just a little bit more courage. No, if you don't Dehumanise people will all became once, all united, and that's scaring for every government, not just north Africa but US, Italy, France, all Europe and all the world. If we can see how the low and middle class are all the same, that we all have the same ideas, we would fight for something higher that wars for oil.
Government are scared, and so they divide. Propaganda. All groups that have new ideas are dangerous. All of them are to be avoid, even without looking at them. We say they are crazy, and you have to think like this too.
Just think of the world Communism. It's strong, it sounds "bad", we don't even care about it. When we hear it, we all very careful about what's going on. We have do protect ourself. But really Communism in his principles is just the best way of govern. the problem is that people are not perfect, and there will always try to take advantages. Is not communism the danger, is the uman nature.
But that doesn't mean we can't take something positive and possible from Communism.
Be aware we are in 1984. Be aware of the power of the words, and be aware that changing them, or giving them different meanings from the real one, is very dangerous, and didn't happen just in Dictatorial Russia (dictatorial, not communist), but it's happening today, in our "great democracies".
Be always aware. When a word gives you a feeling of danger, try to compensate by regarding at it like a possible very positive thing.
Be aware of the power of dehumanisation. All mankind are the same, even if for some purposes thinking someone is not is the only way to achieve the goal.
P.S. Why does it sound so bad to say "suffering people and workers of all the world, unite!"? Most of us is not the really rich class, and so the idea of more wealth to middle class should sound great to the most and very bad to the few rich one. Are you sure in some idea you have, you are not saying "I wants the rich to became more rich and me to became more poor, because this is the nature"?
Seems like you should say the opposite...playing the game of your class. Interesting.
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