“He yelled, ‘You murdering, Irish SCUM, you’re an ANIMAL. What did I say? A murdering Irish ANIMAL’”

Gerry Conlon: Proved Innocent, emphasis in the original.

…that is it the existing “lesser-than” moral status of nonhuman animals.  The very fact that we understand that nonhuman are inferior and killable puts humans conceptualised as nonhuman in extreme danger.

PART ONE

PART TWO