But to answer your question: yes, even anticommunists are still people. I can understand the urge to dehumanize them, especially after seeing atrocities that they committed, but when we do that we risk presenting an oversimplified image of our oppressors that makes them less recognisable in reality. For example:
And this is what the CIA was teaching them to do. And one of the women who was in this program for 2 years — tortured in Brazil for 2 years — she testified internationally when she eventually got out. She said, ‘The most horrible thing about it was in fact, that the people doing the torture were not raving psychopaths.’ She couldn’t break mental contact with them the way you could if they were psychopaths. They were very ordinary people…
Tonight I learned that the beings who prevented famines in Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Korea were actually inhuman monsters. Good to know!
But to answer your question: yes, even anticommunists are still people. I can understand the urge to dehumanize them, especially after seeing atrocities that they committed, but when we do that we risk presenting an oversimplified image of our oppressors that makes them less recognisable in reality. For example:
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