14 May 2025, 13:10

By Alex Hearn

A culture of dehumanisation primes people into losing their inhibitions and performing acts of great cruelty.

For example, Hutu government media bestialised Tutsis as 'cockroaches', inciting the Rwanda genocide where about one million people were killed in 100 days.

Media in Nazi Germany represented Jews as rats in their propaganda, from posters to films. Depicting Jews as racially inferior 'subhumans' allowed them to gain the enthusiastic cooperation of the public in rounding up Jews and a policy of genocide on an unprecedented scale.

So when state media becomes partisan and hostile towards a group, alarm bells ring because of their influence and power to incite hate.

Unfortunately, too many people hired by British state media have been caught displaying such views, such as a senior BBC employee who called Jews' parasites', a BBC........

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