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> Children understand that calling people names isn't the same as violence. Adults understand that dehumanizing someone is one path along the road that ends in
by MisterBastahrd 6y ago
> Children understand that calling people names isn't the same as violence.
Adults understand that dehumanizing someone is one path along the road that ends in violence.
- Nevermark 6y agoAlmost anything, including serious innocent misunderstandings, can be "one path along the road that ends in violence". We all know that smaller things can lead to bigger things, but the smaller thing is not the bigger thing. Unless the transitivity is close to 100% then unbounded conflation just introduces its own unjust currents, turning attempts at constructive change into a bog of dysfunction.