ive said this before but it was on my old blog so I'm saying it again
dehumanizing abusers is not effective at doing anything other than make people think they're ontologically incapable of violence
it's also creating a class of people who you can abuse while telling yourself that you're Good and Moral and Not an Abuser.
if you dehumanize the caught abusers then the uncaught abusers will use their humanity as proof of innocence
if you dehumanize the hypothetical abusers you create incentives for false accusations as a means of dehumanization whenever dehumanization is desired for other reasons
You also absolve the people around the abuser of accountability and give them means to tell themselves the abusive behavior they saw couldn't have actually been abusive. They can tell themselves that since abusers are corrupt, evil, inhuman monsters, anyone who they know and do not think of as a corrupt, evil, inhuman monster couldn't possibly be abusing anyone. Only people they don't know personally can be abusers, so they have no obligation to question anything or intervene. Which is one of the single biggest factors that allows abusers of all kinds to continue being abusive without consequence.
