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Muhammad Shehada
Sep 30, 2024

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[–] underisk@lemmy.ml 28 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Human Shield is a fun little linguistic trick that turns innocent human beings with lives and internality similar to your own into prop objects wielded by an inhuman enemy. This makes it way easier to justify mowing them down in service of your geopolitical goals. Every time that phrase is used it is a sign that someone is probably trying to justify something inhumane; usually something that would be considered a war crime if done against the ones using it.