thanks Alex. That articulates something that's been bugging me about all this too. I think that pictures of individual de-humanising acts on individual people serve as a symbol that we can metnally grasp for the bigger cultural fact of dehumanising entire populations (demographics of poverty and crime within our own borders, but that's another issue). It is not hyperbole to liken this to the Nazi holocaust. Then, the pictures were not seen by the world til after the disaster. Now, there may not be an "after," as its unclear just what needs to happen to make this stop.
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- sally mckay 5-02-2004 7:58 pm