The use of language is meticulously planned to manipulate perceptions, desensitize the public to violence, and legitimize their policies. Language is weaponized to create an "us versus them" mentality, where "them" is depicted as less than human, thereby making cruelty and genocide appear as necessary actions for the greater good or survival of the Jewish nation. This practice of linguistic manipulation is being studied extensively as part of understanding how totalitarian regimes control societies.