Faces Of The Enemy Official

When you look at a protestor and see only a "rioter," you cannot solve the problem. You can only crush it. When you look at a CEO and see only a "parasite," you cannot reform the system. You can only burn it.

VO: But here is the uncomfortable geometry of conflict: When you look into the face of the enemy, you are looking into a mirror made of scar tissue. They are afraid of you, too. Faces Of The Enemy

VO: The enemy does not wake up thinking they are evil. They wake up thinking they are justified. So do you. When you look at a protestor and see

VO: We are trained to remove their face. We put a label over it. Radical. Terrorist. Fascist. Snowflake. Once the label sticks, the face disappears. You can only burn it

Text: History’s greatest violence happens after we remove the human face. We replace “them” with symbols: The Monster. The Pest. The Virus. Quote: “The first casualty of war is not truth, but faces.”

VO: Who is the enemy? Is it the person across the aisle? The voice on the other end of the missile? The stranger who voted against your survival?