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If there is an enemy, the enemy is the othering. But when weвЂ™re divided along ideological lines, itвЂ™s not you making me hurt, or me making you hurt. If we believe divisive words out of hand, we fall prey to othering: the belief that another person or group is the problem, or the source of our pain. But we donвЂ™t need to allow media, or government, or influencers, or friends and family convince us of what is right or wrong, simply by virtue of their authority (or proximity). That doesnвЂ™t mean that person is bad, or evil, or wrong.

Whichever side of an issue weвЂ™re on, thereвЂ™s going to be someone on the other side of it. I wonвЂ™t allow divisive words to stop me from caring. And when we care less about each other, those who wish to divide and conquer us have just had their job made much easier. When we dehumanize others, itвЂ™s easier to care less about them. When we minimize others to labels, itвЂ™s easier to dehumanize them. I do believe those words (and many others, on both sides of the political debate) are being used as tools to turn people into labels. I donвЂ™t believe those words genuinely define anyone. These days as we navigate the pandemic, for example, the words вЂњanti-vaxвЂќ and вЂњanti-scienceвЂќ strike sadness in me every time I hear them. ItвЂ™s propaganda.Д®mployed by ruling and elite classes to manipulate the narrative, divisive language is wordplay designed to pull us apart, by those who benefit from our division. ItвЂ™s not a product of our lived sense of one another as fellow human beings. anti-that, for example-is not the language of the people. When somethingвЂ™s not healthy for us, our body and psyche will afflict us with pain, to signal to us that something is wrong. them rhetoric is hurtful to my heart.ДЄnd it should be hurtful. So many of the words being used in the mainstream media, social media, and what has become of our common discourse are lit up with disrespect, fear, and hate. The pain of divisive words has been eating at me.

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