Bearing Witness

Language as a weapon


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Welcome back to Bearing Witness

In the last episode, we talked about patterns how genocide and authoritarianism are not moments, but processes.

Today, we’re talking about the first and most essential stage of that process.

Language.

Because before violence is normalized, language is prepared. Before people accept mass harm they are taught he was human and not.

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Bearing WitnessBy Farah Johnson