Words That Dehumanize

Words are powerful. Words are how you label almost all components, fundamentals, and parts of existence. Words can help lift up spirits and strengthen minds. They can also bring people down and dehumanize them.

       There are weaponized words. Attack words, which I don't need to list on this post. In order to have a word be effective, your audience/victim needs to know its meaning, and intonation and volume of voice is also how you can detect whether someone is joking or being playful or has openly hostile intent. There is a reason certain words should never be used in certain contexts and situations. They dehumanize certain groups of people and they are essentially weapons that strike the mind.

Labeling is cursing when done in a negative to dehumanize, don't kidd yourself. Labeling and stigmatizing essentially put marks on people's backs, and to some circles it makes the labeled/cursed person an enemy, even putting their life in danger at times.

There was a reason slander and libel were illegal and still are. The problem is that we don't enforce it. It creates the old sunday school veggietale "lie monster" that starts destroying everything. Slander and libel is lying, and the consequences of slander and libel can be and often is death and destruction.