An army that would eventually allow the adult Peter to wage aggressive wars of expansion. ibid.
‘Building St Petersburg meant more casualties, more deaths, more dead than any battle.’ ibid. historian
In the early 1970s a single-minded revolutionary lay concealed in the Cambodian jungle. As American bombs exploded around him, he remained obsessed with his secret plan to destroy his own culture in the name of utopia. Paranoid, he sought enemies everywhere. He turned Cambodia into a hell on Earth, and the name Pol Pot became synonymous with mass murder. In building his perfect society, his regime wreaked chaos. Two million people died: nearly one in every four Cambodians. History’s Most Hated s1e7: Pol Pot
Pol Pot returned to the jungle inspired by Mao’s revolution but convinced he could do even better. He began planning the most extreme social experiment of the twentieth century: to restore Cambodia’s greatness he felt he needed to eliminate all traces of the modern world; he regarded cities as evil and vowed to force the residents into the countryside to build an agrarian society. ibid.
Anyone with an education posed a threat, so Pol Pot began rounding up monks, artists and intellectuals … and buried [them] in mass graves. ibid.
Pol Pot became increasingly paranoid. ibid.
The Renaissance had reached its greatest glory … Yet in a land known as Moscovy the dark ages lingered and a nation struggled daily to avoid economic and political collapse. The force that would save it was embodied in a man, a volatile mixture of piety and ruthless intrigue, whose cunning and cruelty would one day control the largest nation on Earth … Tsar Ivan the Terrible. History’s Most Hated s1e8: Ivan the Terrible
A tumultuous nearly bankrupt country Ivan had inherited: compared to Europe, Russia was primitive. It was a nation with no banks, no form of roads or essential infrastructure. ibid.
Terrible was meant as a term of respect for a leader who possessed awesome power … The irony would not be apparent for years. ibid.
The Tsar was a man teetering on sanity’s edge. ibid.
Hate Crime: The Heinous Act of Disagreeing With a Liberal. is a cunt online article ‘Playing the Race Card’, 17th September 2019
Humans have an unparalleled ability to love and cooperate. So why do we sometimes act cruel and hateful? Not just as individuals but as whole communities or nations. Hate breeds bullying, social injustice, violence, war, even genocide and mass murder. Where does that impulse come from? Why We Hate s1e1: Origins, Steven Spielberg & Alex Gibney, Discovery 2020
What’s really shocking is the speed at which you can incite this kind of behaviour in ordinary people. ibid. expert
Is it something about how we evolved? ibid. Brian Hare, evolutionary biologist
Hate gives us a way to deal with our surroundings … There is a function to our hate … Are we stuck with it? ibid.
What are some of the kinds of things that cause us to hate another group? … We categorise people. Why We Hate s1e2: Tribalism
Sports games in general tend to develop these really deep tribal loyalties. ibid. anthropological tribalism researcher
How do I feel about Arsenal? Hatred. ibid. Spurs fan
The tribes that we get in politics can feel even more powerful than the tribes we saw with sports team affiliation. ibid. researcher
We naturally gravitate to information that confirms what our group already believes. ibid. cognitive scientist
‘I want to understand the tools that incite, amplify and spread hate … Propaganda can be a powerful and subtle tool, but how does it actually work?’ Why We Hate s1e3: Tools & Tactics, Gelani Cobb, journalist and author
‘Dehumanisation played an important role in the exploitation of indigenous people in the United States, in the enslavement of African Americans, through the Japanese internment camps at the start of the Second War War to today.’ ibid. expert
2018: We’re seeing such an upsurge in extremism … the mainstreaming of extremism … Why We Hate s1e4: Extremist, Sasha Havlicek, counter-terrorism expert
There is often trauma in these individual cases of radicalisation early on … What they offer their members is love and support and belonging and care. ibid.
A system of the dehumanisation of the other. ibid.
Genocide, mass murder, crimes against humanity – I’m always trying to figure out why do people participate in acts that are hateful, evil, destructive, that are monstrous. How did human beings arrive at that place, and at the same time, how do some people manage to resist the evil, to push back the darkness? Why We Hate s1e5: Crimes Against Humanity, Patrician Viseur Sellers, criminal lawyer
The heart of genocide: how do you destroy a group? ibid.
Though lynching the individuals you terrorise the entire population. ibid.
Remarkable similarities in what seemed to be driving people into conflict … We share an evolutionary lineage, and an astonishingly violent past … But the saving grace is that our minds evolved to be really flexible. Why We Hate s1e6: Hope, Emile Bruneau
There are three words that summarise the whole history of humanity: civilisation, colonisation, extermination … between colonists and colonised … Entire civilisations in the western hemisphere were wantonly destroyed, setting the western world on a path of greed and destruction. Exterminate All the Brutes I: The Disturbing Confidence of Ignorance, Sky Documentaries 2021
In Sweden, one of the most tolerant countries in Europe, like everywhere else in the world, hate is on the rise again. ibid.
America was born as a colonial power … it bears the fatal capacity to destruct the core story we have been told all these years and the very foundation of this country … A story of survival and violence. ibid.
Kurtz [Heart of Darkness]: Exterminate all the brutes ... It simply tells the truth we try to forget. ibid.
Renowned industrialist Henry Ford gave the Nazi party all the profits from cars sold in Germany. And every year an additional $350,000 was allocated for Hitler’s birthday. ibid.
The charge of genocide when applied to the United States has been unacceptable for a very long time. But the evidence leaves no other choice today. ibid.
It is about how African bodies became properties and source of labour. ibid.
The demand for rubber exploded: this would carry incalculable consequences for the villagers of the Congo. ibid.
The history of America is being written in a world where few little boys want to be Indians. In 1492 neither Europe as we know it nor Whiteness as we now experience it existed as such. Exterminate All the Brutes II: Who the Fuck is Columbus
The great majority of these people did not die in battle; most died of disease, hunger, and inhuman labour conditions because their social organisation had been wrecked by the white conquerors. ibid.
Trading human beings: what sick mind thought of this first? Brought by force and pushed to death: slavery, or the trade as they referred to it euphemistically. ibid.
The silencing of the Haitian revolution is part of a narrative of global domination; nevertheless, the revolution played a central role in the collapse of the entire system of slavery and in the liberation of the land in America. Haiti created the possible. ibid.
During the sixteenth century, England began its brutal conquest of Ireland, and declared half a million acres of land in the north open to settlement. Under British colonial rule, the Irish were regarded as a lower species and naturally inferior. They were descendants of apes. ibid.
Methods of genocide: massacre, sterilization, mutilation, destruction of cultural symbols, deportation, starvation, forceful conversion, separation of families, slavery. ibid.
On these roads, the circulation of the most valuable and decisive commodities would permit the survival of the human race in its adaptation of the planet. And along these roads, for better or worse, silk of course would circulate, but also religion, language, refugees, artists, technology and pandemics. Exterminate All the Brutes III: Killing at a Distance or … How I Thoroughly Enjoyed the Outing *****
Sudan 1898 colonials wars. In Omdurman in 1989 the whole European arsenal was tested against a numerically superior and very determined enemy. One of the most cheerful depicters of war was Winston Churchill, later Nobel winner for Prize for Literature. Was the war correspondent of the Morning Post. ‘Nothing like the battle of Obdurman will ever be seen again’, wrote Churchill in a book published after the experience. ibid.