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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]Orrex
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Let me see all of your posts exhorting Trump voters to stop calling us "Lib-tards" and "snowflakes," instead of jumping on the bandwagon of finger-waggers telling Liberals not to be so mean to our Trump-voting brethren.
You are scolding us for dehumanizing a group that has, in some cases, literally advocated the extermination of whole groups of humans based on skin color, gender identity or national origin. I reject such lectures on postmodern "othering," scolding me for my cruel dehumanization of Trump voters when I merely call them stupid. They are obviously still humans, no matter how stupid they are.
I've seen similar lectures warning that, by "dehumanizing" them, we are dehumanizing ourselves. That's a lovely bit of wordplay, but it's based on the same false premise and is therefore inherently flawed.
And then you declare your own noble enlightenment by revealing that you are "unimpressed with such labels." Well bravo to you. Perhaps some day we'll all sit contemplatively beneath a tree with you.
Though you didn't use the exact phrases "reaching out" and "understanding," the message is the same. If I - and some others - see a different meaning in what you wrote, then perhaps you might reconsider how you wrote it.