i think we spend too much time thinking about the way people can be excluded from humanity, and it always comes back to "please include us in this category" but its getting to the point where maybe if we didn't have a concept so loose that we could simply marginalise others out of it, we wouldn't have to fight to be included in it and therefore reinvested in an epistemology that seems to not actually be about seeing humans as special but rather a status for the civilised to include and exclude people as it pleases. some real POSIWID shit right here