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In reply to the discussion: Ironically, once you decide a person or group is "stupid," you are relieved from thinking about them [View all]JCanete
(5,272 posts)is absolutely dehumanizing. It is making somebody other ... less than. We don't use that kind of language to describe learning challenged people for that very reason. Actually, I'm probably using an antiquated term there. I think its differently abled.
It is first and foremost, its own form of violence.
I get it, these people aren't marginalized, and this is a reaction to the violence they visit upon others, but it doesn't change that it is itself violent, even if it pales by comparison. Second,it isn't that one HAS to follow from the other. It is that historically it does. A trend may not be a rule, but it's pretty damn convincing of the likelihood. You and I may not do any such thing. Just as most right wingers may not be incited to personally do violence by something they see on Fox News. And yet that messaging incites violence and we see the evidence. I doubt we're going to see that shit manifest on the left except for in extremely abberated circumstances, but I doubt we're going to see it on the left because we refuse to be an an echo chamber for each other here. We ARE free thinkers. We don't uniformly buy into the rhetoric or the hate, because we're the ones who appreciate humanism and the valid aspects of behaviorism and genetic realities of human sameness...etc. So I laud posts like the op's that try to remind us to keep some perspective.