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Not saying straight boys can't love their friends platonically yet with great intensity or anything, but his reaction to his bff's death is probably just a little too dramatic to be heterosexually explicable
(Wikipedia screenshot): Hephaestion's death is dealt with at greater length by the ancient sources than any of the events of his life, because of its profound effect upon Alexander. Plutarch says that "Alexander's grief was uncontrollable" and adds that he ordered many signs of mourning, notably that the manes and tails of all horses should be shorn, the demolition of the battlements of the neighbouring cities and the banning of flutes and every other kind of music.[86] Besides the account reported in a previous section about the immediate manifestations of despair by Alexander on his friend's body, Arrian also relates that "until the third day after Hephaestion's death, Alexander neither tasted food nor paid any attention to his personal appearance, but lay on the ground either bewailing or silently mourning," and that he had the doctor, Glaucias, hanged for his lack of care.
February 6, 2024 at 11:51 AM
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(these are not consecutive and often occur simultaneously)
TEN STAGES OF GENOCIDE 1 Classification: People are divided into "us and them." 2 Symbolization: People are forced to identify themselves. 3 Discrimination: People begin to face systematic discrimination. 4. Dehumanization: People equated with animals, vermin, or diseases. 5 Organization: The government creates specific groups (police/military) to enforce the policies. 6 Polarization: The government broadcasts propaganda to turn the populace against the group. 7 Preparation: Official action to remove/relocate people. 8 Persecution: Beginning of murders, theft of property, trial massacres. 9 Extermination: Wholesale elimination of the group. It is "extermination" and not murder because the people are not considered human. 10 Denial: The government denies that it has committed any crime.
February 2, 2024 at 3:02 AM