Originally Posted by tristanrobin

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Whenever a person denigrates, dehumanizes and demonizes a separate community and/or group of people, that person is helping to foster the society, atmosphere, culture that commits violence against that group of people. It is common strategy used by any culture which is determined to marginalize and discriminate against an individual minority group.

By making the general public feel this group is 'less than,' 'inferior,' and 'not human,' they give tacit approval for the violence performed against that group by the violent fringe of their movement.