• Ephera@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    I imagine, a lot of the controversy also comes from how people imagine the situation, e.g.:

    • Is the person a stranger or an acquaintance?
    • Are you “stuck with them”, in the sense that your car broke down, or in the sense that they’re actively hunting you?
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      2 months ago

      Also if they’re white and domestically born, or are they black and foreign born.

      Which is what this question is actually about - generating support for xenophobic and anti black policies

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          2 months ago

          Race is already part of it. When you dehumanize men you make it easier for cops to kill black men, and for Fox News to scare monger about men in migrant caravans, and for Israel to murder male children and claim they are Hamas terrorists.

          Men are not weapons or superpredators. They are human beings. And this dehumanizing rhetoric furthers the goals of conservative and fascist actors - and will disproportionately harm men of color and immigrant men