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Comment by johnnyanmac

5 days ago

>but I fail to see how in either case.

You're free to argue with thr reddit admins on how. It's not my call.

But as a hint, it's pretty easy to deny existence when you dehumanize someone. If you can't see that, you may need to read more history.

> But as a hint, it's pretty easy to deny existence when you dehumanize someone.

This has the logic backwards, and is also playing semantic games with the meaning of "deny existence". We're talking about a claim that someone already does not exist (which is why people think it's absurd: they're often actively having a conversation with the person they're falsely accused of believing not to exist), not the act of causing someone to cease to exist (an imprecise, colloquial way of referring to murder).