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thinking about the phenomena where people reduce a complex story to really simple, punchy bites they can beat on, removing the humanity from their target

it makes it a really easy way to boost your social standing. "look. I'm not THIS. that's how you know I'm good, actually"

it's a frustrating thing because it's an easy mentality for people to slip into. so easy to dehumanize targets, and then nothing they say matters because "everyone agrees" they're not a real person anyway so who cares

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