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And the tendency to dehumanize is a messy process, that reaches for anything it can weaponize against someone or some group that it perceives as a threat, including intersecting marginalized status of someone who is perceived as threatening.

People, threatening or not, usually have intersecting demographic qualities of both power and privilege. And that tendency to weaponize a person's qualities in a process of dehumanizing them doesn't necessarily filter those qualities in "humane ways."