• Doubledee [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    8 months ago

    Because humans aren’t legal or illegal? Because it’s exclusively applied in a us-foreign-policy way to people who resemble a certain ethnicity? Because it’s dehumanizing language that works to subconsciously justify treating them as criminals even if they didn’t do anything wrong?

    It’s language used to criticize an entire group of people out of hand.

      • Alsephina@lemmy.ml
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        8 months ago

        ^ This fascist would’ve called slaves killing their owners “criminals” for breaking the law, and Mandela for “illegally” sabotaging the apartheid government