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Father stares at the hand and foot of his five-year-old, severed as a punishment for failing to make the daily rubber quota. Belgian Congo, 1904. (lemmy.world)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm convinced my dog isn't a person, my chickens aren't people and even the worms in my garden aren't people. But I would never treat any of those as brutally as the Belgians treated the Congolese. It is absolutely bey9nf my comprehensionsl.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A better statement would be the Belgians dehumanized the Congolese.

It's the opposite of what you do right now with animals, treating them as a pet and something that can suffer is humanizing them.

It's why we say we cannot tolerate intolerance - to allow any dehumanization allows for this stuff to happen.