{"id":135417,"date":"2017-11-26T23:39:34","date_gmt":"2017-11-27T06:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=135417"},"modified":"2017-11-27T00:12:41","modified_gmt":"2017-11-27T07:12:41","slug":"the-mundanity-of-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/11\/26\/the-mundanity-of-evil.html","title":{"rendered":"The Mundanity of Evil"},"content":{"rendered":"

People who believe awful stuff look just like you and me.<\/p>\n

Yeah, it would be convenient if they had a Mark of Cain on their forehead.<\/p>\n

Yeah, it would be convenient if they consistently spouted horrifying ideology, or wore convenient armbands to show that they are terrible people, or clearly and obviously looked different from the nice couple across the street who keep their yard tidy and who don’t have any objectionable bumper stickers on their cars.<\/p>\n

How do we deal with people whose awfulness is not obvious, until they actually say awful things?<\/p>\n


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\n<\/a>
\nNazis Are Just Like You and Me, Except They’re Nazis – The Atlantic<\/a><\/span>
\nDespite what you may have read in The New York Times<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

People who believe awful stuff look just like you and me. Yeah, it would be convenient if they had a Mark of Cain on their forehead. Yeah, it would be convenient if they consistently spouted horrifying ideology, or wore convenient armbands to show that they are terrible people, or clearly and obviously looked different from … Continue reading “The Mundanity of Evil”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-politics-law"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/unnamed-34.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":134653,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/09\/11\/convenient-social-media-abbreviations.html","url_meta":{"origin":135417,"position":0},"title":"Convenient social media abbreviations","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 11-Sep-17 6:21pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Yeah ... 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