Totalitarian police erase victims’ existence rather than merely kill them

Evidence

Police swiftly ruled that Nabra’s murder was no hate crime, but the result of road rage, implying that the two cannot coexist. I attended Nabra’s vigil in Reston, Virginia, on June 21, 2017, alongside my close friends Abed Ayoub and Mohammed Maraqa and thousands who came together only blocks away from her home. Her friends were there, as were her parents. Her father echoed what he told investigators and police immediately after he learned about his daughter’s murder: “He killed my daughter because she is Muslim. That’s what I believe.” Every Muslim American at the vigil that day agreed with Nabra’s father, as did millions more who followed her story and mourned her death from afar. — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 512 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Through the creation of conditions under which conscience ceases to be adequate and to do good becomes utterly impossible, the consciously organized complicity of all men in the crimes of totalitarian regimes is extended to the victims and thus made really total. The SS implicated concentration-camp inmates—criminals, politicals, Jews—in their crimes by making them responsible for a large part of the administration, thus confronting them with the hopeless dilemma whether to send their friends to their death, or to help murder other men who happened to be strangers, and forcing them, in any event, to behave like murderers. The point is not only that hatred is diverted from those who are guilty (the capos were more hated than the SS), but that the distinguishing line between persecutor and persecuted, between the murderer and his victim, is constantly blurred. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1015 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Totalitarian complicity is made total by implicating victims in the crimes — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1015; Totalitarian legal theory replaces juridical accountability with fate and life-laws; State classification of a killing can erase the antisemitic motive witnesses identify — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 512 (+1 more)

Related

• Totalitarian complicity is made total by implicating victims in the crimes (similarity 0.82)
• State classification of a killing can erase the antisemitic motive witnesses identify (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• State classification of a killing can erase the antisemitic motive witnesses identify #exemplifies (0.88) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 512
• Totalitarian complicity is made total by implicating victims in the crimes #expands (0.82) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1015
• Totalitarian legal theory replaces juridical accountability with fate and life-laws #expands (0.75)