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The word “fascist” gets thrown around a lot in politics, but it’s hard to find a more apt one for “Unhumans,” which came out last month. The book argues that leftists don’t deserve the status of human beings — that they are, as the title says, unhumans
Hitler was fond of the term “untermensch,” which translates to “subhuman”, and was widely used by the Nazis when referring to Jews and other “undesirables” to dehumanize them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Untermensch
Untermensch (German pronunciation: [ˈʔʊntɐˌmɛnʃ] ⓘ; plural: Untermenschen) is a German language word literally meaning ‘underman’, ‘sub-man’, or ‘subhuman’, that was extensively used by Germany’s Nazi Party to refer to non-Aryan people they deemed as inferior. It was mainly used against “the masses from the East”, that is Jews, Roma, and Slavs (mainly ethnic Poles, Belarusians, Czechs, Ukrainians, Serbs, and Russians).[2][3]