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Why a 21-year-old coder finally ported the real P.T. to PC: 'That something so influential could eventually become unplayable never sat right with me' (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Don't dehumanize Nazis. That's literally that they do. It's important to acknowledge they are human.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    If you're saying that it's important to remember that no one is born fascist, and therefore anyone can become one if they choose to, then I agree.

    However, fascists abandoned their humanity to become what they are. Just because they are incorrect to dehumanize others, that does not mean that we need to ignore that they dehumanized themselves. They can choose to re-humanize themselves at any time by adopting humanity into their ethics and politics.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago

    It's also important to remember that when we dehumanize them it gives them some added rhetorical ground. The ability to say "see I'm not a nazi, I'm just an ordinary person [to you], not some sort of subhuman monster". They have surrendered their souls and are unwilling to try to claw them back, but it is worth keeping in mind the ways they'll try to use our rhetoric to weasel their way into acceptability in orher people's eyes

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