Speaker B argues that dehumanizing language in politics normalizes violence and can precede mass atrocities. They urge people to be intentional with words, collaborate across differences, and take personal responsibility for how they judge and label others.
What do you hope this book will do for everyone who reads it, and then for the world at large?
I hope that we can stop normalizing violence in our culture and stop normalizing the labeling and name calling that we've started to do, especially about our political opponents and kind of creating enemies out of one another, and realize that we're inevitably going to have to keep working together to some extent. And so we've got to find a way to do this. I hope that people will take the time to be more intentional with our language, because, you know, dehumanizing language is a precursor to mass atrocities. That's what history has shown us. And so even if you don't feel like you're someone who is going out and actually causing violence, that is clear to the eye, recognizing what is happening internally in your judgment or some of the labeling that you're engaging in.
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