You see, the reason I feel so strongly about this is because of what the response to October 7th has shown about how willingly people will dehumanise another group of people. As shown so pithily in the above post.
Look at how the responsibility of the terrorist, war starting, dictatorship is brushed aside. Explicit in the above post is the message that apportioning blame to Hamas for their deliberate and calculated actions throughout, is somehow a silly thing to do with a hidden agenda.
Instead the democratic country of Israel is dehumanised by refusing to allow any context for their actions and refusing to acknowledge how they are reacting to the actions of another player ( Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran and Houthis, all of whom are attacking, or aiding the attack, of Israel with the intent to destroy it completely - resulting in a genuine genocide of Jews). Israelis are dehumanised as the atrocities against them are simply unacknowledged, as are the continual rocket and terrorist attacks on them. Also unacknowledged is what will happen to the Jews of Israel if they do not succeed against those who wish to murder them all.
And this is how genuine atrocities and genocides happen. They do not happen because of a small number of very evil people. They happen because of the willingness of large sections of the population, people who think they are the good ones, to dehumanise others, to insist on simplistic narratives and to have a lack of curiosity which leads to a refusal to engage or consider any counter evidence to their dehumanising of others. This is how dehumanisation starts, this is what it looks like. And October 7th has shown me how we all need to be on guard against it and call it out.