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Mass unreason: How dogma normalises public cruelty in Nigeria, By Umar Yakubu

Mass unreason: How dogma normalises public cruelty in Nigeria, By Umar Yakubu
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Arendt’s account of Eichmann asks us to consider how ordinary people can distance themselves from the harm they help sustain. In Nigeria’s digital public square, that question is close at hand: When we cheer a killing, excuse a mob or turn away from a victim because of who they are, what are we h...

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