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He hadn’t made his rubber quota for the day so the Belgian-appointed overseers had cut off his daughter’s hand and foot. Her name was Boali. She was five years old. Then they killed her. But they weren’t finished. Then they killed his wife too. And because that didn’t seem quite cruel enough, quite strong enough to make their case, they cannibalized both Boali and her mother. And they presented Nsala with the tokens, the leftovers from the once-living body of his darling child whom he so loved. Still, whoever actually commits those atrocities is a special kind of evil. But the thing that really shocks me with situations like this isn’t that someone does it. What shocks me is how many people were capable of I Am Black Every Month But This Month I Am Blackity Black Black Shirt doing those horrible things. Because it makes me wonder how many seemingly normal people, people you encounter every day, might be capable of such atrocities, given the right circumstances.
I think this comes back to your first statement about not seeing another human as a human. I’d imagine that there is a significant portion of any given population of people who wouldn’t have any issue at all with smashing a rat with a shovel because the rat to them is a disgusting creature unworthy of any care or compassion. If your messaging and propaganda is strong enough for long enough, it may sway more people to thinking of people like rats and treating them as such. Almost, your timeline’s a bit off. The Berlin Conference of 1885 was what formalized Leopold’s control over his African territories. Otherworld powers were still hugely exploitative at the time but they were nowhere near as bad as Leopold’s treatment of I Am Black Every Month But This Month I Am Blackity Black Black Shirt the Congo (more than that colony was among the most exploitative states in human history than the other powers being in any way morally justified in their imperialism). I think the Belgian state took control of the Congo in 1908.
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