At the risk of more downvotes, all I was saying is that blanketing a whole group of people in a term such as “deplorables” is a slippery slope to not seeing them as human at all. Not saying they don’t deserve to be described that way.
I understand that its a term people use to describe others and that its been used in recent history for these exact people but that doesn’t make it not dehumanizing. My point is just that there should be “people” following “deplorable.” Maybe I was caught up in the semantics of the phrase but it was on my mind seeing garbage people changed to simply deplorables.
Don’t need to dehumanize them to describe how much they suck
Deplorable: deserving strong condemnation, shockingly bad in quality.
Describes exactly how bad they suck.
Doesn’t say they are not human people, just that they’re the kind of human people we deplore.
At the risk of more downvotes, all I was saying is that blanketing a whole group of people in a term such as “deplorables” is a slippery slope to not seeing them as human at all. Not saying they don’t deserve to be described that way.
Maybe you were too young in 2016, but…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basket_of_deplorables
I understand that its a term people use to describe others and that its been used in recent history for these exact people but that doesn’t make it not dehumanizing. My point is just that there should be “people” following “deplorable.” Maybe I was caught up in the semantics of the phrase but it was on my mind seeing garbage people changed to simply deplorables.
Blame the MAGA army for getting super upset about it.