except it isn’t. dehumanizing isn’t just the candy coated “hurt feelings” variety you describe, in reality it is much much worse. dehumanizing an individual does not require any sort of sterotyping whatsoever.
you are also missing the above point that observing an aspect of a groups official training is very different then stereotyping any specific individual. you are talking about the vague dehumanizing of a general group of people, the discussion is about dehumanizing specific individuals, this is a very very different action.
to clarify, making a blanket statement about criminals is a very different action then dehumanizing individual criminals. they are not even close to the same thing. apples and oranges.
