Comment by JumpCrisscross
6 hours ago
> Please stop using the word alien to refer to humans
It’s the legally-correct term.
For what it’s worth, I’m a naturalized American. When I was doing my citizenship paperwork, I found the term fun. The word doesn’t dehumanize. Murdering people does.
Genocide starts with separating people into them and us, and this process starts with words.
> Genocide starts with separating people into them and us
This is an unsubstantiated slippery slope. We can categorize people, even sort them by desirability for some purpose, without resorting to dehumanization much less genocide. (Citizenship and immigration necessitate an us-them delineation. So do team sports, families and like club memberships. Us and them are fine. Us versus them is dangerous.)
It's not enough by itself of course, but in the US it's very much a "us versus them" if you haven't noticed.