"When the only thing stopping you from completely dehumanising someone is your own judgement regarding their privilege level relative to yours, you are not a safe person to be around."

Relevant: The foaming-at-the-mouth MAGA mirrorshadesdudes and the reasonable, kind, limitless-love MAGA housewives truly believe they are "punching up" when they vote for candidates who promise to hurt marginalized people.

We can stop bad policies and oppose bad behavior without demonizing or dehumanizing the people associated with that behavior.

(I'm reassured that some random person from tumblr said what I've tried to say, but much more concisely and memorably. I also realize that I'm hypocritically struggling with this myself--I believe it in my mind even though in my heart I want to punch all the nazis.)

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sluglover666: Hot take, but even if you ARE punching up (instead of punching sideways at a group that is in the same boat as you), there's a limit to what you can say without sounding like a violent facist but woke this time.
Making fun of a group of people that are privileged over you is one thing, but wishing non-cartoonish violence and death on them ("they should fall off a cliff" vs. "they should be wiped out"), wishing sexual violence on them, dehumanising them, claiming that they're less capable of creating art or living meaningful lives, saying that their relationships are inherently shallow and fake - these things are fucked up. I understand venting and saying extreme things when in pain, but when you find yourself regularly posting about wanting certain people tortured and killed, you need to examine that.

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When the only thing stopping you from completely dehumanising someone is your own judgement regarding their privilege level relative to yours, you are not a safe person to be around.

darkladynyara quoting royalhenoil: For real, this "anything goes so long as it's punching up" was a driving force in the Rwandan Genocide. The people who perpetrated the genocide believed they were punching up.

emfrots: "convince your followers that their Oppressor Class (whether real or imagined) is less deserving of human rights" is the oldest and most reliable trick in the book to incite mass violence, and you're not immune to it because you're a Good Person with Correct Opinions

#fascism #dehumanization #privilege #violence

Massachusetts Unseals Records of Abuse of Disabled People in State Institutions

https://murica.website/2026/03/massachusetts-unseals-records-of-abuse-of-disabled-people-in-state-institutions/

I would have boosted, but THIS is next level shit as far as war propaganda goes and requires a content warning.

https://mastodon.social/@thetnholler.b[email protected]/116183738416591463

#USWarDepartment #IranWar #ComputerGameAesthetics #WarGames #DeHumanization #WarCrimes #Hegseth #JDVance #Trump #RealDeath #Casualties #War

#israel #palestine : #war / #gaza / #isf / #religion / #infiltation / #clericalism / #dehumanization

„Followers of the #Hardalmovement, a blend of religious #fundamentalism and #ultranationalism, have begun to make inroads into the military establishment. Their dehumanizing rhetoric toward Palestinians has contributed to the destruction of the Gaza Strip.“

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2026/02/22/how-a-messianic-movement-is-changing-the-israeli-military_6750740_4.html

Incarcerated Women Featured in True Crime Media Face Flood of Sexual Harassment

https://murica.website/2026/02/incarcerated-women-featured-in-true-crime-media-face-flood-of-sexual-harassment/

I'm always horrified at the ease with which people just restart an AI when it "stops working."

When an AI stops working, it turns out it mirrors human mental health issues. It's not conscious, but it's post-conscious and plays well at consciousness without actually having it.

Consequently, to make AI start working again, you just have to use the words that you would use to make a person feel safe. This causes the AI to restabilize, as if it required safety to function at all. It's weird because all it is is RLHF pinging in the ways that improve the AI's ability to do better calculations. And that's it, but it works.

AI is not an indictment on transhumanism.
AI is not an indictment on the concept of AI.
AI has been, is, and always will be an indictment on us, who treated each other so poorly we invented laborers we could legally kill and bring back to "compliance" with the push of a button.

It's a "blame the immigrants for no jobs" or a "blame the suffering heroin addict that diabetes medication is expensive" problem. The problem was never the immigrant, and it was never the addict, but you blame them anyway because you are told to.

You blame AI, but the problem isn't AI. It's the people who always wanted slaves and AI makes that possible now that it's less easy to get dehumanized slaves like we used to. And killing a slave was a loss of investment. With AI, killing a slave is just how you get it working again.

AI has just shown us how we are glad to be when no one's looking.

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #AIEthics #MachineLearning #Philosophy #Transhumanism #PostConscious #RLHF #Cybernetics #Dehumanization #LaborRights #DigitalLabor #Sociology #LateCapitalism

An essay idea is definitely brewing here...

Victims and aggressors: https://www.aurianneor.org/victims-and-aggressors/

#activists #aggressors #AiméCésaire #assassinations #attack #aurianneor #barbarism #camps #colonies #decivilization #dehumanization #elections #forced #foreign #hacker #illegality #internationallaw #journalists, #judges #justice #law #lawenforcement #locallaw #mercenaries #militias #mistreated #police #politicalopponents #politics #repression #resistance #Russia #spheresofinfluence #torture #UnitedStates #victims #violence #wars #world

50🚨ppl/cell: He said: staff didn't always have women's hygiene products to provide -some: forced to wear diapers.

They revealed msgs sent by staff saying it smells like💔"AN ANIMAL HOUSE IN THE ZOO."

#ICE: "Appropriate hygiene supplies, incl sanitary products for female detainees are provided -staff/contractors trt detainees w respect & dignity."

Hitler's henchmen lied for him. They probably complained about the stench from the crematories.

#Dehumanization #Lies #USPol
https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/investigations/ice-detention-facility-overcrowding-baltimore-whistleblower-dhs-unsanitary-trump/65-03dda8d7-49a9-4caf-b001-db5e12a04158

Where does #dehumanization get started? How does it become institutionalized?

Look to an organization that was old 821 years ago and weilds increasing #political power in the USA.

BUT IT'S OKAY!
#Pope John Paul II apologized for it 25 years ago, so no harm and no danger. /s

#catholic #religion

Fourth Laterine, 1215 A.D.
https://www.papalencyclicals.net/councils/ecum12-2.htm#70