[Sephiroth]

Originally Posted by 1andrew1

It's dehumanising to label any group **** whoever uses the label, be it you or Mick. And when you start to dehumanise your opponents, you're on a slippery slope. "Dehumanization is one technique in incitement to genocide.[ It has also been used to justify war, judicial and extrajudicial killing, slavery, the confiscation of property, denial of suffrage and other rights, and to attack enemies or political opponents." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dehumanization

I have no issue in describing the armed insurgents as thugs.
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You're way off beam there, Andrew.