Human scum.
This is the New Normal term cult leaders and followers use to discredit their detractors. The term parallels other favorite cult terms like “traitors,” “spies,” and “rats.”
It is no coincidence that the term in movie-land is used by robots to describe the humans they are trying to eliminate.
The literal use of the human scum term represents one person’s deep-seeded hatred and disgust with anyone who dares to question their actions, beliefs or motives. Human scum name callers believe they are the best, most superior, and most powerful of all humans. Their entitlement to hate and their privilege to express revulsion toward others makes them feel good, righteous, and even religious.
And it should not be surprising that the human scum name callers in this country offer up bombastic praise for world leaders like Russian President Vladimir Putin, North Korea Supreme Leader Kim Jung Un, and Turkey President Recep Erdogan—all three of whom murder, assassinate, imprison, and torture those who dare speak against their corrupt authoritarian rule. These three leaders are in the top ten of human rights violators.
Put it this way: these murderous dictatorial thugs are now considered by many to be better than the “human scum” who dare question the political leadership in this country.
Americans throughout the history of this nation have coined derogatory terms to dehumanize racial and ethnic groups they hated. Most of those terms have fallen into social disfavor and are now spoken mostly on Bubba’s front porch or in the privacy of group gatherings where birds of a feather flock together.
It’s “human scum’s” time in the nation’s history to be utilized to dehumanize others. Those who embrace the human scum ideology are like the two Bubbas who wore t-shirts to a political rally last year boasting that they would rather be Russian than Democrat. In other words, Putin is better than Joe Biden, Kim Jung Un is better than Elizabeth Warren, and Erdogan is better than Bernie Sanders.
What was that we use to say in school, “sticks and stones will break my bones but names will never hurt me.”
That was a school yard myth.
Names do hurt—not only do they hurt the people subject to the name calling but they do irreparable harm to the society at large who have people that love dehumanizing others through name-calling.
“Why can’t we all just get along?”
Don’t know, Rodney, but do know that we all can’t.