Just how dehumanizing is it to refer to people you kill as “bug splats”?? Good God.
Dehumanizing the “other” is as old as…well, war…I suppose. The “other” are portrayed as dogs, rats, and other things to dehumanize them. It makes it easier to shoot someone if you no longer see them as a human being.
200 innocent children dead. We should hang our heads in shame.