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cool! it's endlessly fascinating to me as part of the "radicalization process", although I do hate that framing a bit. Slightly too law enforcement vibe.

But yeah, it's definitely this formula that can be applied to almost any ideology and arguably, it's THE way to convince people to be the aggressors against each other. IMO, this was at the heart of that toxic trajectory of those ITS folks, for example.

Defensive violence is of course, very different: untainted by the process of "othering the enemy" … because they're literally attacking you, obviously don't need to invent justifications.