To those songs I trace my first glimmering conception of the
dehumanizing char- acter of slavery.
Our primary focus is on addressing the risks of offline harm, and research* shows that
dehumanizing language increases that risk.
Some observers argue that political elites do not necessarily believe
dehumanizing ideologies, but rather are rational, strategic actors who make use of dehumanising propaganda to legitimise atrocities or discriminatory acts in order to preserve their power or advance their interests.
"The
dehumanizing treatment of Cindy Gladue in this case raises critical issues, including of the law of consent, the mistreatment treatment of Indigenous women by the criminal justice system, and the pervasive problem of violence against women."
In America, white Americans had been
dehumanizing blacks and unleashing violence on black bodies for 300 years before the rise of the re-formed Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s, when the organized targeting of Jews by hate movements began.
Twitter recently started reaching out to its users for figuring out a way to remove '
dehumanizing' posts and comments that set the stage for violence in real life.
Yesterday, Donald Trump used a
dehumanizing term towards immigrants and referred to them as animals.
George Yancey's
DEHUMANIZING CHRISTIANS: CULTURAL COMPETITION IN A MULTICULTURAL WORLD (9781412852678, $49.95) examines right-wing authoritarianism and its
dehumanizing effects on Christians, considering how authoritarianism serves as a tool of the right-wing and progressives who would use it against conservative Christians.
The Centre had earlier opposed the plea by arguing that the convicts did not go through torture, agony and
dehumanizing experience during pendency of the mercy pleas.
He has found that many of the arguments of right-wing authoritarianism are also used in explaining the "Christian Right." His topics are: whether right-wing authoritarianism is incorrect; constructing the Christian dehumanization scale; who are those
dehumanizing Christians; authoritarianism, dehumanization, and critical thinking; whether Christian dehumanization is merely a version of right-wing authoritarianism; and where to go from here.
Making a family line up in thesun for hours to cross a checkpoint is a form of
dehumanizing. It isdehumanizing to deny medical care, to destroy means of livelihood, to takesomeone's land, to put someone in solitary confinement in jail for monthsand years, or to tell someone that she is not of God's chosen peopel so shehas lless rights.
Wallace depicts the resulting transformation of the IRS into a profit-maximizing business as
dehumanizing.