How the Holocaust happened:
A fake ICE tip line reveals neighbors reporting neighbors https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/20/fake-ice-tip-line-viral/
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"He’s making people who are reporting people taking advantage of the system look like just bad human beings,”
Correction - he's showing that they *are* bad human beings.
For who don't have access to the Washington Post: https://archive.ph/jEd1i#selection-481.8-481.121
From the article:
- one commenter called it “one of the most creative, nonviolent and effective acts of resistance” they’d ever seen.
- the teacher video showed the “banality of evil personified.”
- “You can kind of sense that they think they’re doing the right thing, and then he just repeats what they said, and they kind of realize they’re doing something terrible.”
@jeffjarvis Same happened in Colonbia during the Civil War, during 1899-1901 approximately. When I was studying this in the history class, I could not understand why it happened when I was a kid. Like, aren't neighbors supposed to be your friends? Now seeing this is sort of a dystopia.
This is a song that talks about what happened.
