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Gerry Connolly: “It is easy to compromise someone else's autonomy when I objectify them as apostate or 'the other.'”

On the recordJuly 28, 2015
It is easy to compromise someone else's autonomy when I objectify them as apostate or 'the other.'
Said by
Gerry Connolly
Democratic · Virginia

Editor's note · Context

Connolly discusses the dangers of objectifying individuals in the context of extremism.

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