?The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human? Aldous Hux

[GrGr]

Do you agree with the above statement?

 

[GrGr]

Hmm I'm trying to make this a poll but it doesn't work

 

[Vic]

Of course. Only a psycopath is able to harm other people without dehumanizing them. For example, what do police call criminal suspects? The "bad guys". Dehumanization complete.

 

[StageLeft]

Yes, it's true.

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[cKGunslinger]

Originally posted by: GrGr
Do you agree with the above statement?

Yep. The terrorists are monsters, Americans are capitalits pigs, Kerry is a douche, Cheney is an evil robot, and Bush is a retarded crack-monkey. *Everyone* involved in extreme debate becomes a propagandist and exercises that particular tool, as it's very effective, despite being so obvious.

 

[ntdz]

thats the point of it during war. During peacetime, or a political campaign, not so much.

 

[gsaldivar]

Originally posted by: cKGunslinger

Originally posted by: GrGr
Do you agree with the above statement?

Yep. The terrorists are monsters, Americans are capitalits pigs, Kerry is a douche, Cheney is an evil robot, and Bush is a retarded crack-monkey. *Everyone* involved in extreme debate becomes a propagandist and exercises that particular tool, as it's very effective, despite being so obvious.

Well said.

 

[Citadel535]

Don't forget that America is a megalomaniacal tyrant run empire intent on conquering the world and enforcing our beliefs on them while exploiting the people and murdering them every day. We're worse than the Nazis apparently.

 

[CycloWizard]

Agreed 100%. This is why I went through my exercise to define a person in strict terms outside the realm of any particular issue. People need to step back and take an objective look at just what a person is. Maybe this would impart on them some grasp of just how grave the decision to take a life really is. For example, I would be interested to see how many people said a prayer for our troops going into Falluja but didn't give the same courtesy for those that they're attacking and why.