This is why dehumanization is always part of fascist propaganda. You can’t remove empathy completely from most people, but you can make them see a group as less than them and the empathatic response will be reduced. That’s why the left uses terms like undocumented immigrants versus illegal aliens. Calling them ‘illegals’ is a key step for generating the capacity in people to murder them en masse.
This is why dehumanization is always part of fascist propaganda. You can’t remove empathy completely from most people, but you can make them see a group as less than them and the empathatic response will be reduced. That’s why the left uses terms like undocumented immigrants versus illegal aliens. Calling them ‘illegals’ is a key step for generating the capacity in people to murder them en masse.
Whenever I hear the term “alien” for an immigrant I know that person to be extremely racist.