In this context, I think ‘dehumanization’ really means declaring someone not a valid person, rather than any specific assertion of species. A conflation of person/human much in the way gender and sex are often conflated.
Yeah, it’s as we said both the rights thing we take issue with and the conflation of person with human, since we aren’t and should have the same rights whether or not we are.
Plus being seen as human gives us dysphoria, so we would prefer it didn’t happen. It’s important to include those of us who aren’t human in the conversation and take into account our perspective too!
In this context, I think ‘dehumanization’ really means declaring someone not a valid person, rather than any specific assertion of species. A conflation of person/human much in the way gender and sex are often conflated.
Yeah, it’s as we said both the rights thing we take issue with and the conflation of person with human, since we aren’t and should have the same rights whether or not we are.
Plus being seen as human gives us dysphoria, so we would prefer it didn’t happen. It’s important to include those of us who aren’t human in the conversation and take into account our perspective too!