

Criticizing and even insulting awful people is hardly dehumanizing. Notice how I just called them people?
But, I don’t know, maybe calling large swaths of people vermin, or saying they’re poisoning the blood of our country, or even just rounding them up and shipping them off to some place they do not know because they’re the wrong skin tone? Well that would be pretty shitty.
I agree with more than half. Probably. And I’m not going to be pedantic and pretend like “everyone” means literally 100% of the population.
But “everyone” is still a strong word, and we have SO many people who have been conditioned their entire lives to equate material wealth with admirable people and lives well lived. They might be jealous of the rich, but it’s the same way they might be jealous of a professional athlete or a rock star. It’s not “fuck that guy,” it’s “I want to be that guy.”