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Let me tell you how this administration doesn't think it's child abuse to snatch children away from their parents and then lock them in cages with strangers. They don't see these kids or their parents as fully human. They've dehumanized them first. That's the first step here.
The first step of the trans-Atlantic slave trade was to dehumanize Africans. The first step to almost complete genocide of Native Americans was to dehumanize them. Colonizers and oppressors first dehumanize then they victimize. It eases their conscience.
Trump has spent years now dehumanizing border-crosses as animals, rapists, and murderers. He doubled down on it earlier today. That step is an essential one. That dehumanization precedes genocide. It's what makes it palatable & acceptable to millions - as polls now show.
The civilized have created the wretched and do not intend to change the status quo;are responsible for their slaughter and enslavement;rain down bombs on defenseless children whenever and wherever they decide that their ‘vital interests’are menaced #JamesBaldwinpic.twitter.com/fO7j7nkuow
Poc knows the evils of this oppressive system. Knows what it feels like to be ignored, to be treated as less than, to find no resolution. The crimes against humanity is not new, the victims are.pic.twitter.com/KPavxVhkaC
I'm not sure it's even for the sake of their conscience. I don't think it even pings their conscience. It's an excuse for us. I suspect many of them never saw these people as people in the first place.
Cognitive dissonance
Exactly!!! That’s the root to all types of evil.
I know plenty of modern day colonizers who come with preconceived notions of the non-human status of any other race than theirs (i.e. non-white). They never considered them human to begin with. Their consciences rest at ease every night. Every goddamned night.
Yep. As deplorable as this is, it is not shocking. It engrained in spirit of how things happen have always happened.
Right. We shouldn't be surprised when it gets to the point where they shooting people at that boarder. It starts w/ calling them Animals making people feel like they less than.
Jail does the same
Let's make sure everyone knows what you refer to is both #Clinton and #Obama policies that created this immigration debacle. Your hatred of @realDonaldTrump blinds you --- and as such, you'll never admit the truth.
The first step was to buy them from the local tribesmen blame their elders for selling humans.
Your tweet is so fundamentally speciesist. And people said you were vegan? The idea implied in the concept of "dehumanization" is that anyone who isn't human is somehow inferior, which is problematic in itself. You can call out Trump without endorsing speciesism.
This is the kind of shit I'm talking about. Considering the world we live in, where people ARE okay with separating nonhuman families, these sorts of tweets only reinforce the discrimination that underpins what is, by far, the biggest system of oppression that has ever existed.pic.twitter.com/TZk2gwAbmx
Time and place, absolutely. People like you are now pretending you care about discrimination and oppression, so it's definitely the perfect time to remind you of the system of oppression and discrimination you choose to support for no better reason than your palate pleasure.
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