Original sin has planted the great fear for guilt into everybody. The misinterpretation of children's behavior creates ugly images of them. Those images turn into demons that people constantly try to fight of, to prove to themselves and others that they are not like that at all. One way to do that is to show your despise for people who represent that demon. This is a bit risky, for if it is a false accusation you make yourself guilty, you create a bad image of yourself.
So those subhumans are very useful, you can project all your demons upon them without risk, they are supposed to have no honor and no human feelings.
Therefore many other categories have been classified as subhuman, based on class, race, religion, nationality and so on. But also in individual relationships a person may be so classified, often one child in a family takes in that position; people can play the one part in one relationship and the other part in another; sometimes it's even reciprocal.
Evil is made out of paradoxes, the snake biting its own tail: for the sake of being seen as a good person, someone who always treats everybody as equal, people start classifying a part of the population as intrinsically inferior. The fear for guilt is the cause of the holocaust.
But now, with those subhumans everywhere, avoiding getting in touch with them on a deeper level needs more then burka's and Botox. The indecent must develop devices to block out human expression.
Many of such devices have been developed. They are used selectively, but many have blocked out every one at a deeper level, so that they have lost the capacity to love. These are the people who have no higher goals in life than to prove their superiority, everything circles around power, status, money and expressing their despise for inferior people. They are the people who enjoy witch-hunting. As most of the positions of power are taken in by those who are most hungry for it, those people form the most powerful class.
In 1956 Elvis Presley's TV-appearances made him the most popular artist of all times practically overnight. I saw them many years later and was amazed. He used means of expression I didn't know existed and didn't know I could read; he broke down and rebuilt the universe.
They wrote in the papers he was making howling and growling noises and grimaces. Of course those people didn't know they had everything distorted, that they were looking with an evil eye and listening with an evil ear; they thought everybody observed the same. "It must be something sexual they said. It's what witch-hunters always say about emotions they don't understand, which are almost all human emotions. For Elvis Presley was the target of a witch-hunt too, like Oscar Wilde and O.J. Simpson.
In 1995 we saw O.J. Simpson on Dutch TV for the first time, they showed his reaction for five seconds in the news after they said "not guilty . (Before the trial nobody had heard of him and it is illegal to expose a defendant.) I thought "that seems really a very nice person; I can't imagine it's a murderer . My friend saw the news too and thought the same. But it's exactly those five seconds they all show on the internet: look, what a monster. I thought they had everything distorted again, but there are other possibilities. Oprah Winfrey showed a boy who was classified as abnormal. You saw him coming home, his mother had put some food on the table, she grabbed him by his shoulders and pushed him towards the table: "Sit! Eat! He got angry and Oprah and her audience all went "Ooh! What an impossible boy! The subhumans are supposed to have no feelings, no honor, you cannot insult them ... So I realized that my friend and I automatically took into account that if they would have said "guilty the consequences would have been horrible and that he knew all the world was watching. The witch-hunters don't do that. So it can work two ways: you don't put yourself in somebody's place because you don't read his expressions or you can't read them because you don't put yourself in his place.
There are other possibilities. In some interviews with Mr. Simpson, at a certain point, the interviewer just didn't hear a single word he said anymore.
There is one other motive for classifying people as subhuman: innocence. I suppose people cannot accept to see an innocence in somebody else that they have lost themselves " nobody is to escape from the Fall.
In 1960 6 year old Ruby Bridges went to a white school and people were standing at the side doing the most vicious name-calling and threatening. She said later that for a long time she didn't know it was because she was black. I don't think it was. Racism was the justification, but innocence the motive. Many parents try to avoid original sin, which is not so easy as you might pass on your own fears without knowing it. But when they succeed there is a good chance that at school such a child will become the target of the class or the teacher. In the latter case, as the teacher doesn't see the behavior of that child as reactions to the abuse, the child might be classified as abnormal and put on hard drugs like Ritalin.
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