Hi-jack fall-out

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>  --- Brad DeLong <jbdelong at uclink.berkeley.edu> wrote: > >>
>>  >>If there's nothing to celebrate, how can a celebration be understandable?
>>  >
>>  >The U.S. has killed people for decades at almost no risk to itself.
>>  >It's supported the most murderous, repressive regimes imaginable.
>>  >Can't you imagine how some of its victims could feel a little
>>  >Schadenfreude?
>>  >
>>  >Doug
>>
>>  No. I genuinely don't understand how anyone can think that killing a
>>  secretary working on the 80th floor of the World Trade Center hurts
>  > some organism called "the U.S." that, say, assisted Pinochet...
>
>Oh come on of course you do.  Dehumanising the enemy is a very early stage in
>the crowd psychology of peoples at war, and a stage which the Palestinians
>passed a long time ago.  You certainly do understand this.  What you're saying
>is that the actions of those Palestinians who celebrated were in poor taste.
>Which is true, but it kind of throws things into relief when you put it that
>way.
>
>dd

One of the first steps of dehumanization is the use of euphemism. 
Like "collateral damage," the term that the U.S. military taught 
Timothy McVeigh to use.

Yoshie