culpritus [any]@hexbear.net to history@hexbear.netEnglish · 11 months agoCounter "Sit In" Protestor in 1960hexbear.netexternal-linkmessage-square20fedilinkarrow-up183arrow-down10
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minus-squareEvilsandwichman [none/use name]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up24·11 months agoHow do you participate in this and still think you’re a good person?
minus-squareBeamBrain [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·11 months agoEvil may indeed often be the most banal Eichmann. Perhaps sometimes it comes instead with Mephistophelean splendour. But very often it’s a party-goer; boisterous; braying; a frat alumnus; a bully who loves being a bully; a successful professional, lip-smacking at the misery of those s/he hurts; and one who is increasingly happy to cop to that enjoyment, to proclaim it, to perform it.
How do you participate in this and still think you’re a good person?
Evil may indeed often be the most banal Eichmann. Perhaps sometimes it comes instead with Mephistophelean splendour. But very often it’s a party-goer; boisterous; braying; a frat alumnus; a bully who loves being a bully; a successful professional, lip-smacking at the misery of those s/he hurts; and one who is increasingly happy to cop to that enjoyment, to proclaim it, to perform it.