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Please stop using the word alien to refer to humans. It's dehumanizing and it leads to a path where you can justify humiliating, torturing, and murdering other
by lawn 9mo ago
Please stop using the word alien to refer to humans.
It's dehumanizing and it leads to a path where you can justify humiliating, torturing, and murdering other humans. Which is already happening with ICE.
- JumpCrisscross 9mo ago> Please stop using the word alien to refer to humans It’s the legally-correct term. For what it’s worth, I’m a naturalized American. When I was doing my citizenship paperwork, I found the term fun. The word doesn’t dehumanize. Murdering people does.
- lawn 9mo agoGenocide starts with separating people into them and us, and this process starts with words.
- JumpCrisscross 9mo ago> Genocide starts with separating people into them and us This is an unsubstantiated slippery slope. We can categorize people, even sort them by desirability for some purpose, without resorting to dehumanization much less genocide. (Citizenship and immigration necessitate an us-them delineation. So do team sports, families and like club memberships. Us and them are fine. Us versus them is dangerous.)
- lawn 9mo agoIt's not enough by itself of course, but in the US it's very much a "us versus them" if you haven't noticed.