Days after school shooting, US representative Thomas Massie posts family photo with guns, asks Santa for ammo for Christmas. "Merry Christmas!, ps. Santa, please bring ammo," read the Saturday tweet by the Republican representative from Kentucky, which showed everyone in the photo holding various types of guns. (CNN)
During the Holocaust, Nazis referred to Jews as rats. Hutus involved in the Rwanda genocide called Tutsis cockroaches. Slave owners throughout history considered slaves subhuman animals. In Less Than Human, David Livingstone Smith argues that it's important to define and describe dehumanization, because it's what opens the door for cruelty and genocide.
"We all know, despite what we see in the movies," Smith tells NPR's Neal Conan, "that it's very difficult, psychologically, to kill another human being up close and in cold blood, or to inflict atrocities on them." So, when it does happen, it can be helpful to understand what it is that allows human beings "to overcome the very deep and natural inhibitions they have against treating other people like game animals or vermin or dangerous predators." (Less Than Human/David Livingston Smith)
Is it just the INHUMANITY, of Humans…is it the lack of NURTURING of Humans…is it that some People are not EMPATHETIC…is it SELF CONSUMPTION of daily Ignorance… is it the GLUTTONY of a diseased conscience void of Caring, Concern or Cause? This Kentucky GOP Goon, Thomas Massie, has his family consisting of 5 children, he, and his wife, almost romantically caressing their own ASSAULT WEAPON sitting in front of a Christmas Tree, spreading some kind of PERVERTED JOY, to celebrate Christmas. That alone should raise the voices of the religious who consider Christmas a time of love; but to actually post this photo NOW, after the latest MURDER of innocents by another CREEP with an assault weapon, should rile up anyone who thinks this season is considered PEACE ON EARTH!
