We’re all animals - and I don’t need a biologist to confirm that. But trying to imply your political opponents are somehow subhuman and need to be “stamp[ed] out” is exactly the problem we’re trying to prevent: tribal dehumanization and demonization justifying increasingly totalizing and violent attempts to eliminate categories of people by race, creed, etc. Which, by the way, more and more even mainstream Democrats are trying to do in othering huge numbers of their fellow citizens as “insurrectionists”, “ultra-MAGA” people, “deplorables”, and of course “racists” and “white supremacists”, who must be increasingly marginalized from society, if not thrown in jail for their political views, or perhaps eliminated altogether.
We’re all animals - and I don’t need a biologist to confirm that. But trying to imply your political opponents are somehow subhuman and need to be “stamp[ed] out” is exactly the problem we’re trying to prevent: tribal dehumanization and demonization justifying increasingly totalizing and violent attempts to eliminate categories of people by race, creed, etc. Which, by the way, more and more even mainstream Democrats are trying to do in othering huge numbers of their fellow citizens as “insurrectionists”, “ultra-MAGA” people, “deplorables”, and of course “racists” and “white supremacists”, who must be increasingly marginalized from society, if not thrown in jail for their political views, or perhaps eliminated altogether.