Dual-Use Moments: Would You Know?

It’s 1942. You live by the railway. You see the trains travelling to Auschwitz. You see the people inside. Would you know you’re witnessing genocide? Lesson of Babi Yar: Genocide is made up of heaps of dual-use moments which are part of a system. Stealth Genocide: Forcing Ukrainians to kill Ukrainians.

Source: Twitter Archive (29 September 2022)

Genocide concealed in “dual-use moments” — each individual action looks like something else (a checkpoint, a census, a mobilisation order). Only when the system is seen as a whole does the genocide become visible. This is why the Coercive Control framing matters: the pattern, not the incident, is the crime.

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