Why using the term subhuman is not dehumanizing

[Deleted member 2012]

Sub-human is like something sub-standard; a falling short of or being less than or not as good as can be expected.

Sub-human is NOT non-human. We do not stop being human beings if we do not live up to our full potential. It simply means that we are less that we could or even should be as human beings. It is a MINUS state of being. Living a sub-human life, we fall short. We are failing ourselves. We’re missing out on many things that a human should be able to have.

We are in a LESSER state of being. But the term doesn’t take our humanity away, we’re still humans.

 

[turkproducer]

it definitely is dehumanising lol, sub means less than, so what is a less than human? A half human? Lol

 

[WannaBeA6]

yes bro you are right now go use that word among your social circle

 

[Deleted member 685]

We are all subhumans

 

[Deleted member 39]

Guess I'm a non-human then

 

[Deleted member 2846]

bc we all know we aren’t actually “sub humans”

if you were to tell that to a legitimately horribly deformed person, it would be harmful