• captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    It’s also important to remember that when we dehumanize them it gives them some added rhetorical ground. The ability to say “see I’m not a nazi, I’m just an ordinary person [to you], not some sort of subhuman monster”. They have surrendered their souls and are unwilling to try to claw them back, but it is worth keeping in mind the ways they’ll try to use our rhetoric to weasel their way into acceptability in orher people’s eyes