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Jack Valentino

(2,385 posts)
19. heh, yeah, I know--- I may have actually helped to coin that term on Daily Kos---
Tue Jun 17, 2025, 12:27 AM
Tuesday

before someone decided it was 'against the rules of the road',
because it was deemed "dehumanizing"---

even though the word used was "MAGAts" and not "maggots"...


Now that people are actually being shoved into unmarked vans
by unidentified agents wearing masks and refusing to identify themselves,
I have much less problem with labeling them, or anyone who supports them,
in "dehumanizing terms" (with my apologies to ACTUAL 'maggots)

As I stated on DailyKos,
"when they put us on trains headed towards the death factories,
we will be very happy to know that we are better than them,
because we did not label them with a 'dehumanizing term' "

I had one or two suspensions on that site over this "issue".
Glad DU doesn't have a bug up their ass over those words




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