The #JamiaViolence is a result of journalists like Arnab and his @republic TV
Hate speech was prosecuted as a war crime in the tribunal for Rwanda.The judgment declared that the way the journalists had acted constituted “journalism as genocide”.
thepolisproject.com/journalism-as-…
Hate speech was prosecuted as a war crime in the tribunal for Rwanda.The judgment declared that the way the journalists had acted constituted “journalism as genocide”.
thepolisproject.com/journalism-as-…
Between 2014 — 2016 I analyzed witness testimonies from the Nuremberg, Yugoslavia and Rwanda trials, two things become increasingly clear. #JamiaViolence
First, truthful reporting of facts, analytical investigation of issues, and a stand against violence by journalists in all these instances could have both changed the behavior of the perpetrators, and in some instance even prevented the slaughter. #JamiaGunViolence #JamiaViolence
Second, when airwaves become a platform for ideological, socio-religious-nationalist populism, there are clear roadmaps with milestones and perfected patterns of hate that lead to eventual violence and destruction of a society. Some of these milestones include #JamiaGunViolence 
👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾Words can kill👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾
How ?
Rwandan cultural anthropologist Charles Mironko analyzed confessions of a hundred genocide perpetrators. His work confirms the thesis that hate messages in the media had a direct effect on the dehumanization of the population +
How ?
Rwandan cultural anthropologist Charles Mironko analyzed confessions of a hundred genocide perpetrators. His work confirms the thesis that hate messages in the media had a direct effect on the dehumanization of the population +
that was subject to persistent slander. Several months of this behavior, in the absence of credible reporting, conditioned the population to hate, and kill.
Second — 👇🏾👇🏾Democratic alibi 👇🏾👇🏾
This concept is essential to understanding what is happening in India right now.
French historian Jean-Pierre Chrétien describes the behavior by journalists in inciting hatred and violence as ‘the democratic alibi’.
This concept is essential to understanding what is happening in India right now.
French historian Jean-Pierre Chrétien describes the behavior by journalists in inciting hatred and violence as ‘the democratic alibi’.
I expanded on this concept and defined parameters for the case of India
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A democratic alibi divorces the question of ethics from the political and employs the mechanisms of mass conditioning and mobilization required to create group hatred.
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A democratic alibi divorces the question of ethics from the political and employs the mechanisms of mass conditioning and mobilization required to create group hatred.
👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾A democratic alibi is the precondition to riots, lynching, political trials, extrajudicial killings, military occupation and genocidal violence.
👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾Its legitimacy lies in the justification of collective violence either by the state or the mob, and begins by creating a dispensable enemy of the state – the “anti-national”, “the secular”, “the minority”
An established pattern of presenting and commenting on the news transforms political debate into righteous passion against individuals and groups that disagree with the status quo. #JamiaViolence
