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I guess you stopped reading at "hairstyle" and completely missed the ethnic slur part.


No, I've read it all. But looks like you've ignored the part where I said that an ethnic slur tied to actions is what renders it dehumanizing.

> You chose to empty the word of the meaning into a simple hairstyle, much like the Nazis just made use of cultural symbols to address the Jewish or Polish people for example.

Using your assessment, the Nazi Germany slur "Schlitzauge" was a "simple" ethnic slur to address Slavic people, or "Polacke" was "just" slur to address people from Poland. If you add the context of propaganda and war, and the actions toward those people I think it's pretty clear it was dehumanizing.

You don't need to be literal to dehumanize a group of people, it's actions taken with a given label that put meaning into a slur.




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