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Jfc. These people are fucking monsters.
They’re not people.
They are people.
Calling them monsters and dehumanizing them separates "them" from "us" and prevents us feom trying to understand how a real person, with intellect, feelings, a family, a social life etc. can get to the point where they do such things. If we don't collectively at least try and understand it, we have zero chance of preventing it from happening again.
That being said, I'm not at all making excuses for their actions, which I find seriously violent, disgusting and worrying.
Fully agree. They are people engaging in toxic and possibly criminal behaviour, and should face the consequences.
But not seeing ‘the other side’ as people will only further the extremely detrimental polarisation of society, with groups shifting apart like tectonic plates and making it extremely hard to find common ground again.