trump, "animals"
Trump says, regarding illegal immigrants, and specifically transnational gangs like MS-13, "You wouldn’t believe how bad these people are. These aren’t people, these are animals."
The danger in denying basic humanity to a certain group of people is twofold:
1) It's too easy to use that to justify TREATING them as non-human, and
2) It's too easy to start spreading that non-human category to include other people you don't like.
trump, "animals"
"They're not people, they're animals" is how people start getting put in concentration camps. They're not people, so you don't have to care about them. They're animals, so you don't have to offer them due process or the protection of law. And once you've done that once, it's really easy to justify doing it again to suppress another group you don't like.
The power to dehumanize is inherently corruptive.
trump, "animals"
@noelle everything about this pissed me the fuck off;
1) they do HORRIBLE THINGS like what, gardening, washing dishes, harvesting food?
2) This remains a scam to get free labor and feel big, nothing virtuous in it.
3) even if calling other humans “animals” wasn’t racist keeping actual animals in the conditions we have is horrendous.
4) and of course the conservative fap fantasy about TOUGH LEADERSHIP fixing weakness (ie not being vicious asswipes)
