That is not a thing that has ever happened. Conservatives are completely fine with dehumanising their enemies and criticise toxic discourse at the same time. Contradiction is baked into the ideology, and they thrive on it, because there is one set of rules for the in-group and another for the out-group.
Oh, they don’t seem to be experiencing any difficulties with that whatsoever. It’s amazing what cognitive feats a person can achieve if only they blithely cast aside the bonds of intellectual honesty and logical consistency.
The main idea of their hateful rhetoric is dehumanizing and demonizing anyone who isn’t a US-born white male that agrees with them. If you’re anything else they hate you and would prefer you not be alive.
case in point, in reference to some people who made edgy memes on bluesky“Local man who kept dead rat in bedroom for weeks declares self as an expert on what qualifies as humanity.”
Ah yes, good ol’ Arsemoldgold.
