“There’s no grays, only white that’s got grubby. I’m surprised you don’t know that. And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things. Including yourself. That’s what sin is.”

“It’s a lot more complicated than that–”

“No. It ain’t. When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they’re getting worried that they won’t like the truth. People as things, that’s where it starts.”

“Oh, I’m sure there are worse crimes–”

“But they starts with thinking about people as things…”

These are aspects of genocide not stages.

For example:

1 Discrimination can start before symbolization

2 The government doesn't need to create specific groups to perform actions

3 Genocide doesn't need to include extermination

I’m seeing several of these as campaign slogans from some American politicians.

I see we’re somewhere between 8 and 9 with Gaza, with some 10 sprinkled in.

Listen to Anti-flag’s Anatomy of an Enemy

Does the author realize we keep it at a 6-7 in the USA?

To my knowledge, with the exeption of number 5, Israel has checked every point of this list.

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Apple is on stage 3 with the green/blue bubble thing :D