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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Dehumanizing them is counterproductive.

They ARE human beings, who need to both be deprogrammed and held accountable, proportionally to their actions. But they didn't just spontaneously erupt in hate and bigotry, people aren't born that way, they are socialised to be that away.

There is a collection of deeply effective systems at play here that control every aspect of our lives and those, and the people who run and directly profit from them, are to blame, not the individuals they manipulate, however hateful and harmful and misguided they become.

You're never going to solve a problem by attacking its by-products, but only by destroying it from the roots.