I don't care if you call him/her Bradley or Chelsea.

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5. I don't see it all as separate issues.

Politicians love war because it makes profits and gets them reelected.

But they sell war to the masses - to the people who will be fighting it and voting for more of it - by dehumanizing people in all sorts of ways, by othering them.

I don't think we can be willfully indifferent to the needs of minority or oppressed groups without in our own small way contributing to the marketing and normalization of warfare.

Disrespectful speech (deliberate use of wrong pronouns to invalidate someone's identity), racial slurs to invalidate someone's humanity, supporting laws to arrest people for supporting gay rights or interracial marriage, supporting profiling of middle eastern or black people or immigrants, it's all part of a package. Inside the package is the manual for how to dehumanize people so we can kill them without guilt and chalk it up to collateral damage.