▲ 768 ▼ Sen. Lindsey Graham dies at 71 after ‘brief and sudden illness’ (www.nbcnews.com) submitted 4 weeks ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/politics@lemmy.world 396 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world -1 points 4 weeks ago (3 children) i mean while i agree, i don't want to get into the habit of dehumanizing people (even if it feels fair play for any given specific person). permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 4 weeks ago (1 child) Why should we humanize people who were literally fascists who dehumanized others? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world -1 points 4 weeks ago who said we had to do that? i just don't like dehumanizing. permalink fedilink source parent [–] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 5 points 4 weeks ago (1 child) It took a whole fucking lot of dehumanization to defeat the actual historical Nazis. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 point 4 weeks ago Maybe we're thinking of similar things, but I thought it took killing, not dehumanization. I mean it's easier to convince a bunch of someones to kill someone else if you first dehumanize the someone else to the someones so I get where you're coming from tho permalink fedilink source parent [–] Leg@sh.itjust.works -1 points 4 weeks ago Agreed. The worst people in history were all still very much human. They had internal complexity that caused them to live the lives they lived and make the mistakes they did. And those humans were terrible people whose deaths deserve celebration, because they're shining examples of which parts of humanity we should strive to avoid emulating. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 4 weeks ago (1 child) Why should we humanize people who were literally fascists who dehumanized others? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world -1 points 4 weeks ago who said we had to do that? i just don't like dehumanizing. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world -1 points 4 weeks ago who said we had to do that? i just don't like dehumanizing. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 5 points 4 weeks ago (1 child) It took a whole fucking lot of dehumanization to defeat the actual historical Nazis. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 point 4 weeks ago Maybe we're thinking of similar things, but I thought it took killing, not dehumanization. I mean it's easier to convince a bunch of someones to kill someone else if you first dehumanize the someone else to the someones so I get where you're coming from tho permalink fedilink source parent
[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 point 4 weeks ago Maybe we're thinking of similar things, but I thought it took killing, not dehumanization. I mean it's easier to convince a bunch of someones to kill someone else if you first dehumanize the someone else to the someones so I get where you're coming from tho permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Leg@sh.itjust.works -1 points 4 weeks ago Agreed. The worst people in history were all still very much human. They had internal complexity that caused them to live the lives they lived and make the mistakes they did. And those humans were terrible people whose deaths deserve celebration, because they're shining examples of which parts of humanity we should strive to avoid emulating. permalink fedilink source parent