ive said this before but it was on my old blog so I’m saying it again
dehumanizing abusers is not effective at doing anything other than make people think they’re ontologically incapable of violence
it’s also creating a class of people who you can abuse while telling yourself that you’re Good and Moral and Not an Abuser.
if you dehumanize the caught abusers then the uncaught abusers will use their humanity as proof of innocence
if you dehumanize the hypothetical abusers you create incentives for false accusations as a means of dehumanization whenever dehumanization is desired for other reasons