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Heartless Animals
submitted 3 years ago by EndlessSunflowers from i.imgur.com
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[–]Chipit 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun - 3 years ago (10 children)
This is exactly the same rhetoric used to dehumanize blacks.
[–]hej 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun - 3 years ago (9 children)
How is this related to crime statistics?
[–]Chipit 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun - 3 years ago (8 children)
You don't see the "heartless animals" connection?
What if she had been robbed and raped instead? Would it be OK to call her assailants heartless animals? That's dehumanizing rhetoric.
[–]hej 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun - 3 years ago (7 children)
Are you equating expecting someone to pay rent to raping and robbing?
[–]Chipit 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun - 3 years ago (6 children)
It's the dehumanizing rhetoric. "Heartless animals" is literally calling people less than human.
If she had been robbed and raped instead of evicted, would you have called the criminals heartless animals? Why or why not? Is it OK to dehumanize people who commit crimes? What about people who follow legal procedures and commit no crimes?
[–]hej 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun - 3 years ago (5 children)
Lets make sure we're talking about the same thing.
Dehumanizing a person could take the form of torture, slavery, abuse, etc.
We're, however, talking about the first amendment which allows you and me to say things that are offensive. That's allowed regardless if criminal, deserved, innocent, etc.
[–]Chipit 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun - 3 years ago (4 children)
Dehumanizing means denying a person's humanity. Calling him an animal is denying his humanity. It's just that simple.
Of course, it's only wrong when other people do it, but when you do it it's A-OK. Here's a nice essay that explains why you do this: http://archive.is/QRJ6m
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[–]Chipit 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun - 3 years ago (2 children)
You really should. Ignorance is nothing to be proud of. It was written by a leftist so it's OK to read. https://archive.fo/QRJ6m
[–]hej 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun - 3 years ago (1 child)
It was written by a leftist so it's OK to read
what the hell does that mean?
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