Women on one side of a murder trial, recast as 'demons' and 'beasts.'
Closing arguments in Lindsay Clancy's murder trial ended on August 27, 2026, and a jury of nine women and three men began deliberating, with manslaughter added as an option. Deliberations ran through Friday without a decision and were set to resume Monday. While the jury was out, some posters online widened the case into a claim about women in general. On August 26, the day before arguments closed, MattWalshBlog wrote on X that women who were defending Clancy are "demons" and "beasts from the pit of hell." The post reached 256,412 views.
Wrong is a judgment about an argument. Demons and beasts are judgments about the people making it, and the two words remove those people from the human category outright.
What cleared the bar is the generalization: the research classified the sentence as 'direct dehumanization of an opinion-defined camp of women,' scored under the political-outgroup lens. The quote establishes the dehumanizing words; that 'these women' damns the whole camp holding the opinion, and goes past the specific defenders he was answering, is the inference that classification rests on. In a week the account spent working the Clancy case from several angles, this was its sharpest formulation.
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"These women are demons. Beasts from the pit of hell."
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