VO: The enemy does not wake up thinking they are evil. They wake up thinking they are justified. So do you.
VO: We are trained to remove their face. We put a label over it. Radical. Terrorist. Fascist. Snowflake. Once the label sticks, the face disappears. Faces Of The Enemy
Text: Faces Of The Enemy The person you hate the most is still a person. VO: The enemy does not wake up thinking they are evil
Text: Look closer at the face you despise. You will find fear—the same shape as yours. You will find a childhood—different clothes, same scraped knees. You will find a heartbeat. VO: We are trained to remove their face
The enemy cannot have a name. They cannot have a child’s birthday party. They cannot have a favorite song. They must become a symbol.
Text: History’s greatest violence happens after we remove the human face. We replace “them” with symbols: The Monster. The Pest. The Virus. Quote: “The first casualty of war is not truth, but faces.”
We live in an era of perfect polarization. The algorithms feed us a simple binary: You are good. They are evil.