• abbadon420@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    I’m convinced my dog isn’t a person, my chickens aren’t people and even the worms in my garden aren’t people. But I would never treat any of those as brutally as the Belgians treated the Congolese. It is absolutely bey9nf my comprehensionsl.

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      1 year ago

      A better statement would be the Belgians dehumanized the Congolese.

      It’s the opposite of what you do right now with animals, treating them as a pet and something that can suffer is humanizing them.

      It’s why we say we cannot tolerate intolerance - to allow any dehumanization allows for this stuff to happen.