State of the human condition (cont.’)

“…People walking out of the train saw the pinned man immediately to the left of the subway car I was riding in. Within thirty seconds a crowd had formed, both inside and outside of the car the man was trapped by, and every other person whipped out their cellphones and started taking pictures and video while the guy writhed around. The injuries looked far worse at the time than they turned out to be, and the impact was strong enough to knock me out of my seat on the train. A woman started yelling at the crowd to put their camera away because of how garish the scene was, and a few people snapped out of it and slinked away, but most did not, and more people came up and jockeyed for position around the injured man every second. People were lined up the stairs for a better viewing angle…” Here.

State of the human condition…

Workers at an American dairy farm  beat cows with crowbars, stab them with pitchforks and punch them in their heads. Here.

The sadistic fairer sex (or tales from the nazi gender war)

Girls just wanna have fun: Nazi party girls after a day’s work

…the participation of women in the crimes of the Nazis has been blended out of the collective conscious of the Germans for a long time,” she [Kathrin Kompisch] wrote in her book, Female Perpetrators: Women under National Socialism. Many women were in fact used as assistants to the doctors who sterilised and murdered disabled people and as guards in the concentration camps – like the character played by Kate Winslet in her Oscar nominated role in the film The Reader. “The history of National Socialism has long been reduced to one that blamed men for everything,” said Ms Kompisch. “This was and is the popular picture.” The true picture was very different. “Women typed the statistics of the murdered victims of the SS Action Squads in the east, operated the radios which called up for more bullets, were invariably the secretaries – and sometimes much more – in all the Gestapo posts,” she said. “And at the end of the war they tried to diminish their responsibility by saying they were just cogs in the all-male machine which gave the orders… Many women were in fact used as assistants to the doctors who sterilised and murdered disabled people and as guards in the concentration camps… Read rest of article here.