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[–] 7 points 1 year ago

https://www.dangerousspeech.org/libraries/dangerous-metaphors-how-dehumanizing-rhetoric-works

One speaker said: “And, at some point, we will have enough power that we will clear them from the streets forever, that which is degenerate in white countries will be removed.” This racist statement implied that the people in question represent a hygienic threat to the society that should be eliminated. The existence of these humans was reduced by the speaker to “degeneration”. This biological term refers to unstoppable deterioration that can be prevented only by the eradication of the subject.

The reason we’re so hard-ass about dehumanizing terms and other dog whistles on Lemmy is because we know how online fora become Nazi bars like 4chan. We remember and learned from GamerGate. The whole BreadTube phenomenon was formed around countering “alt-right” influencers in online spaces.

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