How to Get Others to Persecute

"I do not believe that people are at their core good. I believe because of "the fall" humanity is from the moment of conception corrupted. I do think however, that most people like to go down the path of least resistance which in today's world is a non-confrontational attitude. So getting a group of people to hate, ridicule, outlaw, and eventually attack another group of people is not a straight forward affair, but with this blog post you will learn the needed steps to take a group of otherwise peaceful people and turn them into savage, angry, barbaric people willing to do most evil things imaginable, but only when it comes to a particular group of people. The first step is to find the group that is not in support of your worldview, and in fact holds many opposite opinions to your worldview, and the first thing you want to do is dehumanize them. You see people nowadays feel bad about attacking another human so if you want to get a group of people ready to attack another group your first step is to get them to not see the other side as actual humans. This can be done in variety of ways and has several different effects. One of the most effective ways which plays into step 2 is to make this group seem evil in some way. You could insult their worldview and call it backwards, or foolish. You create this us vs them situation but you paint yourself as a normal human with normal morals, while painting them as abnormal humans. Perhaps they are a different color, perhaps they have a different orientation, or perhaps they are not as evolved. You can play off the current culture in what you want to call them. You can use a vile term to call them by, and this way you paint with a broad brush so that you can equate the best of that group with the worst of that group and judge them all equally. You don't want them to be seen as individuals, it's easier to just categorize them all together so that you have a more clear target. Remember that the key is to make them look evil in some way. So be sure to blame anything you can on them or their worldview. It can violence, suicides, the break down of the family, don't bother with actually looking at the situation, and don't worry about facts. Just blame and attack to keep them on the defensive. Again you can use whatever is sensitive in culture that you're in. The trick is make them a special kind of bad. Not the kind of bad that everyone has, but this is a different bad, and they are not like other people, they are less than human which is why they are so bad. This will give you some important results. First and most important it closes down all communication with other side. Who cares about finding truth and listening to worldviews to see which best fits with reality when you have a people to persecute. All of that discussion would just make these people seem like actual humans beings, and if you are going to get others to persecute them they can't be human. So this way you close down communication which only reinforces your position because now people will only ever hear one side of the argument, and you can further make them look evil by misrepresenting their side in your monologue. The next step is to add a sense of self-righteousness to the people you want to be your persecutors. People want to feel that they are right in what they are doing, this is why it is so important that when you dehumanize a group of people you make them out to be really evil, now your people won't feel so bad when they start to hate that group of people and ridicule them. When ridicule of your targeted group begins it's important that you don't condone it, but neither do you condemn it. You see if you celebrate it, you'll lose your subtlety which you need because you are manipulating people, but you don't want to condemn the ridicule either, because you want to let people know that it is not wrong to ridicule another group of people. If anything what you'll want to do is berate the other side for not being able to take a joke should they complain about being ridiculed. As ridicule of this group becomes more socially acceptable you want to continue to dehumanize them and continue to culturally attack them and their worldview while promoting the idea that when people do things against this group of people they are in fact doing what is right and good. So for example when an injustice is done, you want to make sure that this is seen as victory for your side, not because it actually did anything for your side, but because it hurt your target. The next step is silencing any voices of balance. Now since you have already made this group subhuman you have silenced them from the public square, however there will always be those people who want to be fair and balanced. They must be silenced. If a person shows a little bet of sympathy or balance towards the group you want to persecute, you must shout them down, and send a mob of people after them. This will not only silence them, but it will also act as a warning to other people who might want to stand up for the group you want to persecute that they must quite or else. You also need to shout down anyone who criticizes you or your group. If your group is going to be the self-righteous knights who will annihilate this evil group of sub humans then you must be above reproach. Not literally, in truth you can act any way you want, but if anyone should dare speak against you, they must be silenced by any means the culture will allow. The next step is to outlaw certain things that your targeted group will want or need to do. Should they be a certain color then keep them from entering certain places, if they are a religion make some of their customs illegal, if they have a worldview then make holding certain positions they have illegal and all of this should be done in the interest of the public well being. That's an ambiguous term that is hard to clearly define so it should be good to use for the dumb down masses. Finally keep doing all these things and human nature will push it forward naturally, as ridicule begins to become more bold and cruel, and more laws are made to the point that if someone is even part of that group they are now a criminal and thus worthy of all manner of suffering in the eyes of your public. Now you can do whatever you see fit to this group you want to persecute because you have made them   less than human, evil, a problem to be corrected by any means necessary and you have silenced anyone who would speak against you, or for them. Let the extermination begin."

I hope as one reads this they grasp the satirical tone in it. I do not think it is right or good for any group or any person to be persecuted. I believe each person should be treated equally and fairly because they are made in the image of God. I believe it is wrong to bring injustice against a particular group because you disagree with their worldview or something other shallow reason. I wrote this so that people would understand what I see as a pattern for persecuting others, and seek to avoid this line of think and acting. For Christians I hope that should there be anything in here that hits close to home, that you reflect in thought, prayer and studies of the scriptures, and if need be repent. It is not my desire to see anyone persecuted, however living in a fallen world I know this will be the case until Jesus returns. What did you think of this blog post? It is a little different from my normal ones, so I'm curious as to how you will like it. Comment below and let me know.