Language doesn’t just describe reality; it builds it.
Every metaphor, every repeated phrase shapes how we see others before we ever meet them.
That’s the quiet danger of dehumanization: it begins not with violence, but with words.
In Episode 2: Language as a Weapon, we explore how speech becomes the first battlefield; how metaphors smuggle in actions, how euphemisms soften cruelty, and how repetition makes harm feel rational.
From propaganda to policy, from jokes to headlines, the segment traces how words turn perception into permission. Once language reshapes what we see, violence no longer feels like a rupture; it feels like follow-through.
But language can also protect.
It can restore names, nuance, and empathy.
It can interrupt the rhythm of repetition that makes cruelty feel inevitable.
Each word we choose either builds walls between us or tears them down.
Because words are not decoration; they are foundation.
And the world they build depends on the ones we allow to take root.
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