re: #167 SanFranciscoZionist

That one creeps me out, partly because they can’t explain it, but it clearly means something to their listeners. He’s ‘different’. He doesn’t ‘feel’ like you and me. He didn’t ‘grow up’ like you and me.

This may draw some people closer to them. It alienates the hell out of me.

The first step in dehumanizing someone is painting them as the “other”. That’s why it creeps you out. It’s not that far from saying that President Obama is “different” or an “other” to saying he’s not American to going even further and saying he’s less than human.