two-legged beast

English

Noun

two-legged beast (plural two-legged beasts)

(pejorative) an insult towards humans meant to demean
- 1999 "Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel, and the Palestinians" pg 257 by Noam Chomsky
  Dr. Shlomo Shmelzman .. wrote a letter to the press announcing his hunger strike in protest against the Lebanon war:
  I hear too many familiar sounds today, sounds which are being amplified by the war. I hear "dirty Arabs" and I remember "dirty Jews." I hear about "closed areas" and I remember ghettos and camps. I hear "two-legged beasts"* and I remember...
  Menachem Begin's statement in the Knesset, widely quoted in Israel and Europe since, interpreted as s description of Palestinians as "two-legged beasts." The government of Israel protested that this is a misinterpretation, and that begin's "description is applicable to whosoever sinks to such moral depths that by killing or threatening a Jewish child, he proves himself bereft of any semblance of humanity"
- 2015 "Workers and Workplaces in Revolutionary China" pg 45 by Stephen Andora
  They treated the dock workers like two-legged beasts of burden.

Related terms

beast
beastly

单词	two-legged beast
释义	two-legged beast English Noun two-legged beast (plural two-legged beasts) (pejorative) an insult towards humans meant to demean 1999 "Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel, and the Palestinians" pg 257 by Noam Chomsky Dr. Shlomo Shmelzman .. wrote a letter to the press announcing his hunger strike in protest against the Lebanon war: I hear too many familiar sounds today, sounds which are being amplified by the war. I hear "dirty Arabs" and I remember "dirty Jews." I hear about "closed areas" and I remember ghettos and camps. I hear "two-legged beasts"* and I remember... Menachem Begin's statement in the Knesset, widely quoted in Israel and Europe since, interpreted as s description of Palestinians as "two-legged beasts." The government of Israel protested that this is a misinterpretation, and that begin's "description is applicable to whosoever sinks to such moral depths that by killing or threatening a Jewish child, he proves himself bereft of any semblance of humanity" 2015 "Workers and Workplaces in Revolutionary China" pg 45 by Stephen Andora They treated the dock workers like two-legged beasts of burden. Related terms beast beastly
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