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bianca-alexander88 · 3 months
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banality of evil 
can one do evil without one being evil?
evil deeds without evil intentions; thoughtlessness and disengagement from reality; inability to think from the stand point of someone else; shallow and clueless; a joiner 
a man who drifted in search of purpose and direction, not out of ideological belief 
lack of self reflection defines evil; casualness of evil
the reasons they do what they do aren’t specifically to sow evil (cracking egg, example)
mundane acts of violence, as part of daily business; just what they do
negligent, selfish, uncaring = byproduct of chosen life
human identities, riddled with fragile complexities 
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meganseaman · 1 year
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In Patan, the biennial art expedition Photo KTM5 was spread throughout the bhals! The show presented the everyday hypocrisy that is tolerated even as it destroys the world around us. #banalityofevil #photoktm5 #chhimokichara #socialtours #socialtoursnepal #unitedplanet #ursulinecollege #art #murals https://www.instagram.com/p/Cpq2R_QDxzh/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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catherinecatarinaso · 4 years
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[#STPCSTATUS] * 20102019 * "Currently feeling troubled 😭" -C 👠 #STPCLIFE. #20102019 #Stpcso #Life #Status #BanalityOfEvil #Sad #Troubled #AvenueOfStars #TsimShaTsui #TST #Upset #Exhausted #Tired #Feeling #Mood #LifeQuotes #Quotes (at Avenue Of Stars - Tsim Sha Tsui) https://www.instagram.com/p/B31SwKKJvKrq8_Z80v5jjpXisqH4_nB9HE3hCg0/?igshid=10gxv51221rja
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iambiggest · 2 years
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Hannah Arendt #illustration #art #drawing #sketch #portrait #penandink #watercolor #hannaharendt #writer #philospher #theoriginsoftotalitarianism #eichmanninjerusalem #banalityofevil https://www.instagram.com/p/CZQOC52Mw0k/?utm_medium=tumblr
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miccillian · 2 years
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I dislike the idea o' "unspeakable evil". We MUST speak about it or else we're doomed in a pattern. The "banality of evil" must always be spotlighted in order for us to overcome this societal programmin'. We cannot look away and escape. We need to be better. #miccillian #captncillian #pirate #celtic #folk #canada #mentalhealthawareness #menshealth #moralityandethics #philosophy #evil #indoctrination #brainwashing #banalityofevil #donotwhitewashhistory #bebetter (at Waterloo, Ontario) https://www.instagram.com/p/CYcYo0_FYZ0/?utm_medium=tumblr
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linzaleiki · 3 years
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Untitled 18/24” acrylics on canvas #banalityofevil #figurativeart #figurativepainting #contrmporaryart #contemporarypainting #monochrome #monochromatic #acrylicpainting #experimental #nycart #nyc #actual #brooklyn #studio #studioart #valuestudy (at Ditmas Park, Brooklyn) https://www.instagram.com/p/COIcKMuFwsb/?igshid=t1y66tq6seqs
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jaegyeong-seo · 4 years
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#악의평범성 #banalityofevil #banalitédumal https://www.instagram.com/p/B5cbwHHH9Fa/?igshid=1byaryeq0r8kt
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azspot · 7 years
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This, as virtually every reader of Arendt knows, was one of her more controversial moves, and it has plagued her and discussion of her book ever since. But regardless of one’s position on Arendt’s argument, it’s a relatively well known fact—certainly well known to anyone who’s read the book—that one of the central postulates of the book is that Eichmann’s crimes cannot be explained by his personal animus to the Jews.
Yesterday, I got into an argument with Chelsea Clinton. On Twitter. About Hannah Arendt.
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the banality of evil.
10 years ago next Thursday, Sophie Lancaster died from sustained head injuries, and a coma that she never woke up from, following a gang of five teenage boys repeatedly jumping up and down on her head, kicking her face and stamping on her body. At the time, Sophie had been trying to protect her boyfriend, who had already been beaten to the point of unconsciousness.
When police eventually arrived at the scene, after the pair had been left for dead, both victims' faces were so swollen that it was impossible to tell which of the couple was the male and which the female.
Whilst Sophie's boyfriend Robert Maltby survived, Sophie was pronounced dead an agonising 13 days later, at the age of 20.
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And the motive?
She was a "mosher". 
Sophie could have been anyone from the alternative scene back in the mid 2000s. That could have been me, my brother, or many of my friends who at the time dressed similarly to Sophie. 
And the perpetrators could be any teenage boys in any regular town. 
Only a few years prior to the attack against Sophie, there were many similarities between us. I was into the gothic/alternative scene. I had facial piercings. I listened to music that wasn't popular with the mainstream kids in my school or college. I was lucky enough not to experience a great deal of prejudice about this, aside from the few odd comments, but people I know spent almost their entire time at school being harassed for something as simple as what colour they chose to die their hair, or a piece of metal around their neck. It seems absolutely absurd to look back on it now, yet I know at the time it was no laughing matter. People I dearly loved were being maliciously bullied, threatened and goaded because of something as mundane as their dress sense. I saw an extremely close family member's entire childhood pulled apart by the mentality of conformity and the sheer determination people have to crush any individuality into submission. 
And the emphasis was always on the so-called misfits to find ways to "fit in" and not "draw attention" to themselves. To not be so "stubborn" in their outlook on life. To try to mold into the cookie cutter template. To not respond when being threatened. To be "the bigger person" even if that meant sacrificing their entire belief system, and physical safety. Never once in any of these instances was it suggested that the onus might be on the parents of the perpetrators to bring their kids up to be decent human beings. Never once did the school take any accountability for tackling its bullying culture, or for imposing repercussions. I never heard one person in authority reinforce my relative's right to be themselves, or promote the lesson of acceptance. The bottom line was: if you don't fit in with the rest of us, don't expect us to help when it all kicks off.
 When I was at university, I studied the Sociology of Terror, which  was a module on political conflicts and acts of terrorism across history. When studying about the persecution of Jews in the second world war, we were taught about Hannah Arendt's theory of the "banality of evil". Arendt was a political theorist who argued that evil acts and atrocities as horrific as the Holocaust happened, and will continue to happen, not as the result of radicalism in fringe populations of extremists, as might be assumed, but rather as:
 "simply a function of thoughtlessness, a tendency of ordinary people to obey orders and conform to mass opinion without a critical evaluation of the consequences of their actions and inaction" 
In other words, as a consequence of the incremental permissions we give ourselves to look the other way. 
Over time, I have come to strongly believe in this theory as the basis on which many supposedly "everyday" people allow themselves to do unspeakable things to others, seemingly without remorse, or recourse.
 When we do nothing, when we spread gossip, when we "go along with the joke", when we roll our eyes...
 ...when we say "kids will be kids", when we refuse to believe our little angels are capable of anything but bounty and light when there is evidence to the contrary, when we give weight to superficialities, when we congratulate conventionality, when we take the easy road... 
...when we conflate eccentricity with subhuman scum.
 I'm lucky I was brought up kind, loving Mum, who taught us to do the right thing, not the easy thing. And to judge people on their character, not their appearance. Because of this, despite my many failings and weaknesses, one strength I am grateful for is that I have never deferred or kowtowed to popularity. I have always been far more interested in the misfits and the geeks than I ever have been in the queen bees and the narcissists. I surround myself with people who are happy and proud to be who they are, rather than what society tells them they are supposed to be, and who are fundamentally kind people. I don't have time for the bullshit that comes along with arrogance and ignorance. It's one of the reasons why I will automatically feel myself glaze over in the presence of snobbery, conceitedness, or attention seeking. I just don't want those kind of people in my life, and I've had to learn that the hard way at times. 
My hair is no longer jet black. My piercings are now gone, replaced with tiny faint dimples which make me smile when I remember about the memories I associate with that time. These days I blend in a little more. There are times, even now, when I look away. And when I kick myself for not speaking out. I try hard every day not to be that person, but I know that even I have the propensity to succumb to convenient truths if I allow myself to. 
Let's not let deaths like Sophie's be in vain. Let's not be complacent.
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eltristeblogger · 7 years
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U.S.A. just doesn't look joyful today. #usa #desillusion #darktimes #welcometonewyork #welcometony #welcometonyc #photography #newyork #nyc #ny #newyorkcity #jfk #banalityofevil (at JFK Internatinal Airport)
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peoplearecicadastoo · 5 years
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#banalityofevil #ifnotnow #thejewishfuturedependsonpalestinianfreedom #brooklyn #brooklynstreetart #streetart (at Brooklyn, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/BqsIYmJFzEb/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1gr4ig0f55lty
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rottenart · 6 years
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#familiar #avatar #faceblindness #masque #monolith #veil #eraser #art #found #nyc #inadvert #streetart #streetarthistory #renémagritte #philosophy #banalityofevil #form #function #contemporaryart #rottenart 😶 Muted Sau
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annafifield · 6 years
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Setting up my new office in Beijing, reunited with these guys. #northkorea #kimjongun #banalityofevil https://ift.tt/2zreDoT
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katiezstorey93 · 7 years
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JetBlue Passenger Just Owned Ivanka Trump With This Epic Statement – Liberal Society
Because the boycott against her companies has quit her about the edge of bankruptcy evidently occasions are difficult for the heiress Trump. Jared Kushner, Ivanka and her spouse, were in economy-class on JetBlue airways as well as observe traveling industrial.
But one traveler not went to restrain on his opportunity to provide a bit of his brain to the improper brat.
According resources, JetBlue traveler Matthew Lasner stated his spouse was kicked-off the flight to. A man was overheard by airport following a flight clerk about Ivanka. Are you able to blame them?
Lasner subsequently tweeted, Jared and “Ivanka flying industrial. Our spouse pursuing right down them to frighten them. #banalityofevil”
Based on Marc Scheff, Harlow, a placed before Ivanka Trump about the airplane documented the guy had several option phrases for that heiress :. Today you’re destroying our flight.”
Advantageous to him! Nowadays the Beats simply be seemingly destroying everything. But is the fact that validation to get rid of him in the plane? Whatever happened to Independence of Talk.
JetBlue released a declaration concerning the event to CNN: “The choice to get rid of a person from the trip isn’t taken carefully. When the team decides that the client is creating turmoil about the plane, the client is likely to be requested to deplane, particularly if the team seems the chance of escalation operates during trip. In cases like this, we labored to re-support the celebration about the next accessible flight.”
Whoa. Appears like JetBlue is professional-Trump. Let’s make sure to not to travel together prior to the Trump’s attempt to consider them away and also to usually safeguard our first modification privileges.
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from network 8 http://www.nsorchidsociety.com/jetblue-passenger-just-owned-ivanka-trump-with-this-epic-statement-liberal-society/
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Man Who Harassed Ivanka Trump On Plane Petitioned To Be Fired
Tens of thousands have signed a petition calling for the termination of Ivanka Trump‘s harasser.
A Hunter College professor of urban planning who reportedly chided Ivanka in front of her family on Dec. 22 during a JetBlue flight at JFK airport has come under fire.
Professor Matt Lasner’s husband also started berating Ivanka and told her that her father was “ruining the country” while holding a baby of his own.
Lasner and his spouse, Dan Goldstein, were kicked off the JetBlue flight before takeoff.
Goldstein reportedly told the crew as they chaperoned him off the plane, “You’re kicking me off for expressing my opinion?!!”
Fox News reports Lasner even tweeted that he planned on harassing the Trump family before boarding the flight.
“Ivanka and Jared at JFK T5, flying commercial. My husband chasing them down to harass them. #banalityofevil,” he wrote.
More than 21,000 people have now signed a Change.org petition asking Hunter College to fire Lasner for his “immature and cruel harassment of Ivanka Trump and her family at JFK airport.”
According to the college’s website, Lasner has a Ph.D. in architecture, landscape architecture, and urban planning at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, an MS in urban and regional planning studies from the London School of Economics, and a BA in urban studies at Colombia.
Lasner “studies the history and theory of the U.S. built environment, with a particular focus on housing, and the relationship between housing patterns and urban and suburban form.”
The petition was created by the group Right Wing Millennials, according to Daily Mail.
“Someone like Mr. Lasner, who would harass a mother and her child simply trying to go about their day, does not deserve the honor of teaching,” reads the petition.
“The fact that he tried to cover up and change the story around to avoid the consequences of his actions is also a testament to his character. He is NOT a good example for our youth.”
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Man Who Harassed Ivanka Trump On Plane Petitioned To Be Fired was originally published on Austin Daily Globe
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