I have no idea what the personal attacks were. The comment was removed before I opened the Bulwark today. No, do not dehumanize anyone. Criticizing a party is not a personal attack. However, according to history, dehumanizing a group, especially with such a broad and false brush is the first step to rationalizing violence against that group, sometimes going as far as wholesale politically sanctioned murder.
If I agreed with that, and I don't but you do, then you must criticize your party for dehumanizing those irredeemable deplorables.
You can see an example of his common personal attack a couple of comments earlier in the same thread. He deleted the second one out of latent reflection and embarrassment I am sure.
First of all, you must understand that I am not a Democrat, and have never been a Democrat. Whether you agree with what I wrote about generalized dehumanization of any group is irrelevant. It is a matter of historical fact.
About Hillary's comment. "You could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right?” Clinton said. “The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic. And unfortunately there are people like that. And he has lifted them up.” She did not call them animals-ie-not human, like you did the Democrats, most of whom are actually fine, upstanding people.. She criticized their character. She did not dehumanize them. And as it turned out, she was not wrong. Trump did embolden those sorts of people, and when he was elected, some of those people took committed grievous acts against groups Trump targeted, sometimes even invoking Trump's name while doing so.. She said THE OTHER HALF of Trump’s supporters “feel that the government has let them down” and are “desperate for change.” Is there immortality among Democrats? Yes indeed. Is there immorality among Republicans? Yes indeed. It is a human thing, not a party thing. Tribalism dehumanizes as a way to rationalize their irrational attitudes and behavior.
I have no idea what the personal attacks were. The comment was removed before I opened the Bulwark today. No, do not dehumanize anyone. Criticizing a party is not a personal attack. However, according to history, dehumanizing a group, especially with such a broad and false brush is the first step to rationalizing violence against that group, sometimes going as far as wholesale politically sanctioned murder.
If I agreed with that, and I don't but you do, then you must criticize your party for dehumanizing those irredeemable deplorables.
You can see an example of his common personal attack a couple of comments earlier in the same thread. He deleted the second one out of latent reflection and embarrassment I am sure.
First of all, you must understand that I am not a Democrat, and have never been a Democrat. Whether you agree with what I wrote about generalized dehumanization of any group is irrelevant. It is a matter of historical fact.
About Hillary's comment. "You could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right?” Clinton said. “The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic. And unfortunately there are people like that. And he has lifted them up.” She did not call them animals-ie-not human, like you did the Democrats, most of whom are actually fine, upstanding people.. She criticized their character. She did not dehumanize them. And as it turned out, she was not wrong. Trump did embolden those sorts of people, and when he was elected, some of those people took committed grievous acts against groups Trump targeted, sometimes even invoking Trump's name while doing so.. She said THE OTHER HALF of Trump’s supporters “feel that the government has let them down” and are “desperate for change.” Is there immortality among Democrats? Yes indeed. Is there immorality among Republicans? Yes indeed. It is a human thing, not a party thing. Tribalism dehumanizes as a way to rationalize their irrational attitudes and behavior.