When it has been demonstrated over and over again, how little they think of anyone beneath them.

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    23 days ago

    Direct quite from wiki: “I had been conducting research for some years on deindividuation, vandalism and dehumanization that illustrated the ease with which ordinary people could be led to engage in anti-social acts by putting them in situations where they felt anonymous, or they could perceive of others in ways that made them less than human, as enemies or objects,”

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      3 days ago

      Yeah that quote is from the authority figure Doctor Zimbardo. I don’t think he did anything different than what the Middle Grove experimenters did, except that during that experiment, the subjects ultimately turned against their authority figures.