Dehumanizing exclusion by the fascist liberal tyranny that has corrupted our free speech activity
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In Star Wars, Master Yoda warns that "fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering" (Lucas, 1999, 00:23:45). U.S. society is becoming among the most toxically hateful because people use unspoken judgmental exclusion out of fear of association between social cliques. Ross gives the principled ground for refusing the imputation: "It is an evil principle to think that we can tell other people what they mean by what they say, because of some theory we have.... The implications of these principles are dehumanizing and totalitarian: what individual people think and want is irrelevant" (Ross, 2000). The liberal high-minded person feels they are simply being more progressive and does not want to associate with those they dehumanize as unethical for fear of ending up like them, and thus societal security suffers. "If everyone thought just like me, they would all like me, and the world would be heaven on earth," thought Stalin as he murdered dissidents. We need dissent and acceptance of innately offensive difference in order to self-reflect and for society to deliberate.