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Mass unreason: How dogma normalises public cruelty in Nigeria, By Umar Yakubu

GlobeAlert Desk · curated from Premium Times · Sub-Saharan Africa

Arendt’s account of Eichmann asks us to consider how ordinary people can distance themselves from the harm they help sustain. In Nigeria’s digital public square, that question is close at hand: When we cheer a killing, excuse a mob or turn away from a victim because of who they are, what are we helping make […] The post Mass unreason: How dogma normalises public cruelty in Nigeria, By Umar Yakubu appeared first on Premium Times Nigeria.

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