Except it’s not pedantry. It’s an extremely serious issue. Dehumanization makes it easy to forget who the enemy truly is. It makes it easy to lose face, justify the ones you know as “one of the good ones”, just because you see they’re human. It makes it easy for that hatred to get redirected onto people who should not be part of your hatred by manipulative 3rd parties.
It’s not language policing, it’s an important thing to keep in mind so you do not become what you hate.
People need to see everyone is human so they don’t think the atrocities are only as such because they are the target(see Israel – I’m not saying that you should let people off for the horrors they do).
Except it’s not pedantry. It’s an extremely serious issue. Dehumanization makes it easy to forget who the enemy truly is. It makes it easy to lose face, justify the ones you know as “one of the good ones”, just because you see they’re human. It makes it easy for that hatred to get redirected onto people who should not be part of your hatred by manipulative 3rd parties.
It’s not language policing, it’s an important thing to keep in mind so you do not become what you hate.
People need to see everyone is human so they don’t think the atrocities are only as such because they are the target(see Israel – I’m not saying that you should let people off for the horrors they do).
It’s only difficult if ones’ memory is as pathetic as a goldfish, forgetting who threw the first punch over what reasoning.
And people’s memories are. Hence, important
Yeah… Sadly I can only agree with that!