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The psychology of dehumanization
Why do we make others feel less than?
When you see the president or other politicians use terms like “animals” or, even worse, “infestation” (a term usually reserved for insects), they are engaging in dehumanization. People use ...
“The function of ideology is to stabilize and perpetuate dominance through masking or illusion,” is a definition Alexander Solzhenitsyn probably would have agreed with, although he might have ...
The depiction of Black people as apes is neither accidental nor antiquated. It is one of the oldest racist tropes in Western history, rooted in colonial pseudoscience and Enlightenment-era racial ...
A linguistic analysis of Nazi propaganda suggests that dehumanization of Jews shifted over time, with propaganda after the onset of the Holocaust portraying Jews as having a greater capacity for ...
I must take issue with the letter to the editor "Abortion-rights support should be at odds with Judaism" (Jan. 12). The writer claims that abortion is dehumanizing. Yet it is banning abortion that ...
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