Racism and Classism - The Massie Trials

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[andagii]

@mariamefisto I do not know if this is quite the answer to your question but, according to David Stannard who wrote "Honor Killing" there was a change of conscience. The ethnicities started coming together and finding more common ground, Democrats quadrupled (In the few years after the case), politics changed a little, people of non white ethnicity began to call themselves local, and a few other changes that people in Hawaii probably still feel today.

[dsweetla]

We've changed whom we, as a society and as news media, call 'animals' and call 'delicate thing that must be protected.' Look at any recent trial, and media coverage of, a child molestation. The child molester, before being convicted, will be called similar terms to adult rapists in the 1930s, and children will be portrayed as absolute innocents, as we perceive them today (I do not disagree with this view) much as women were perceived in the 1930s. And the call for lynch law won't be far off.

[iCraacked]

@mariamefisto There are a few books on this subject. :)

[Cimbolic]

@mariamefisto

Yes, a group is vilified.

Often the first step is to use imagery to slid the group down the scale of civilization, to make them appear to be "barabric" and "primitive".

Then, to slide them down the evolutionary scale and give them animal features.

People's brains then take these images and create a stereotype out of them, categorizing the people into the stereotype.

[Cimbolic]

@mariamefisto

You write excellently in Enlish, Maria.

[Cimbolic]

@mariamefisto

"Such a resource should be used to strip someone or something of its seriousness and untouchable aura, so it becomes accessible for analysis, finding flaws, and finally for improvement."

I agree, maria. Very well put.

[Cimbolic]

@mariamefisto

That's a good question, maria. i don't know how deep the consequences went.

[Cimbolic]

@n8glenn

Yes. All driven by fear.

I've made a couple of videos where I talk about the opposite of fear being love.

[n8glenn]

@Cimbolic Bill Hicks said one time there's only one choice in life, the choice between fear and love, and it seems to me that this sort of makes sense. You could make the argument that the capitalists who conquered hawaii were hungry for money to calm their fears of inadequacy or poverty, etc. Then when they got there, they were afraid of the natives, or maybe afraid of their own wives and families, afraid of betrayal, it goes on and on, and it ended up with racist cartoons and murder...

[Cimbolic]

@n8glenn

I think you may be right.