ext_120946 ([identity profile] oakenguy.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] davis_square 2009-07-01 10:12 pm (UTC)

If I was a con artist, who'd been doing the same con in the same place for at least nine years, and while in the process of doing the con someone took my picture, I'd feel a range of negative emotions, sure, but dehumanized? Please.

No one's taking his picture while he's peacefully eating at Dunkin' Donuts, or while he's standing in line for the Tilt-a-Whirl at Canobie Park, or while he's blowing out his birthday candles. No one's picketing his church with "GOD HATES SCAMMERS" signs. Saying these posts dehumanize him is like saying the BPD dehumanizes people when they publicize pictures of them robbing a gas station.

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