After two years of war in Ukraine, videos of death and torture have become commonplace in Russia. And methods of torture once only spoken about in witness testimonials are now being promoted online by the perpetrators themselves as they publish photos and videos of brutality for bragging rights.

  • SamsonSeinfelder@feddit.de
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    27
    arrow-down
    2
    ·
    1 year ago

    What a fucked up society to cheer for coercion from torture and rape to domestic violence and not feel the least bit empathy. Deranged.

    • taladar@feddit.de
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      19
      arrow-down
      10
      ·
      1 year ago

      There was that US TV series basically celebrating torture called 24. Not to mention every other movie or TV series with an interrogation scene.

      • SamsonSeinfelder@feddit.de
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        20
        arrow-down
        2
        ·
        1 year ago

        You compare a TV series with the actual cheering of russian people for rape and torture in ukraine? When the pictures of Guantanamo and other black sides went public the outcry and protest were big. Please, show me the protest in russia about the revelations that their own people rape and torture. I will wait here.

        • AlexS@feddit.de
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          5
          arrow-down
          2
          ·
          1 year ago

          Please, show me the protest in russia about the revelations that their own people rape and torture. I will wait here.

          It was literally in the article:

          The Crew Against Torture, a Russian NGO that was previously known as the Committee Against Torture, said with regards to the original attack that “the answer to barbarism must not be barbarism”, and that that the value of testimony extracted by law enforcement agents under torture was critically low.

      • Mahlzeit@feddit.de
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        11
        arrow-down
        2
        ·
        1 year ago

        A Supreme Court judge (Scalia) made the case that torture was legal under the US Constitution, as it only prohibits cruel and unusual punishment. So, torture for other reasons is obviously fine.

        I think, never stopping to consider the implications must count as an example of “white privilege”.

    • filister@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      4
      ·
      1 year ago

      Because state-sponsored propaganda. Where the other side is actively getting dehumanized and people stop considering them human beings.

      That’s actually pretty common practice and has been used through a lot of wars.