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#760 Jonathan Maynard - Ideology and Mass Killing: The Radicalized Security Politics of Genocides

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The Role of Ideological Propaganda in Mass Killings

Ilya Shapiro: Ideological propaganda and various forms of ideological speech are very important in sustaining the legitimacy of mass killing. He says it's hard to implement a mass killing if you're completely opposed by society. In most cases, he adds, elites usually need to convince people to some extent that this isn't abhorrent or full violence. This is just necessary to protect the state,necessary to protect the community, necessary to identify and punish wrongdoers within society,. And so the organizers of the killing will often use propaganda hate speech sometimes.

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