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Re:Dehumanization of cyclists predicts self-reported aggress... by dfxm12 on Friday March 29, 2019 @12:52PM (#19523343)
As someone from the US, this phrasing confused me. "Bikers" has a much more common meaning here.

I'm from the US and I disagree. Maybe in your community that's the more common meaning, but you can't extrapolate that to the entire country. Context clues should make it obvious what I mean anyway. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRnxEZJCey4

So you think we dehumanize people we judge to be criminals? That would be unfortunate, if true. Sure, it might be reasonable to dehumanize the perpetrators of some heinous acts (serial murder being just one example), but weaving between lanes (which isn't even illegal everywhere to my knowledge) falls way short of that.

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Re:Dehumanization of cyclists predicts self-reported aggress... by kelnos on Friday March 29, 2019 @04:53PM (#19525575)
> So you think we dehumanize people we judge to be criminals?

Yes. I mean, that's pretty much what the article posted here is about.

And this extends to other things that also fall far short of heinous acts: people in the US jailed for minor drug offenses are similarly dehumanized by many people in the "war on drugs" crowd.

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