[Steve Van Doorn]

You have a good point but I was thinking in terms of degrading people to a lesser human. Slavery, genocide, mass murder and ethic cleansing doesn’t happen until the target people are a lesser being.

We can not let them get away with degrading us.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

You have a good point but I was thinking in terms of degrading people to a lesser human. Slavery, genocide, mass murder and ethic cleansing doesn’t happen until the target people are a lesser being.

We can not let them get away with degrading us.

I know. But this works both ways - not only labelling us in a dehumanizing way, but simultaneously subverting the meaning of the word terrorist.