APRIL 28 ― The recent outpouring of hatred towards Rohingya refugees on social media has been nothing short of appalling. One ‘meme’ stood out in particular to me ― it was an edited comic strip depicting a human and a dog sleeping in a room. The human, who had been sleeping on his bed,...
APRIL 28 ― The recent outpouring of hatred towards Rohingya refugees on social media has been nothing short of appalling. One ‘meme’ stood out in particular to me ― it was an edited comic strip depicting a human and a dog sleeping in a room. The human, who had been sleeping on his bed, ended up sleeping on the floor because the dog had climbed onto and gradually took up all the space on the bed.
Either way dehumanisation is never a good thing. In fact, it is often a precursor to escalated violence and hostility against vulnerable minorities: Adolf Hitler had referred to the Jews as rats. During the Rwandan genocide, the Hutus have called the Tutsis “cockroaches”. The Palestinians were also not spared from being referred to as animals by the Israelis. It follows that such “animals” and “vermins” ought to be exterminated.
I suppose it is not hard to believe that Rohingyas are dirty and diseased if we have little to no contact with them. The brain pieces together a negative representation of them based on biased and inaccurate ideas fed to us by politicians and media. Then we fall into the vicious cycle of having these prejudicial ideas reinforced.
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