two-legged beast

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Noun

two-legged beast (plural two-legged beasts)

  1. (derogatory) human
    • 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, Stephen Andora, Workers and Workplaces in Revolutionary China‎, page 45:
      They treated the dock workers like two-legged beasts of burden.
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