Dehumanisation
 Dehumanisation  (genocide, “racism”)   | |
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Dehumanisation is the denial of full humanity in others along with the cruelty and suffering that accompany it. A practical definition refers to it as the viewing and the treatment of other people as though they lack the mental capacities that are commonly attributed to human beings. In this definition, every act or thought that regards a person as "less than" human is dehumanisation.[1]
Dehumanisation is one form of incitement to genocide. It has also been used to justify war, judicial and extrajudicial killing, slavery, the confiscation of property, denial of suffrage and other rights, and to attack enemies or political opponents.[2]
Racist dehumanisation entails that groups and individuals are understood as less than fully human by virtue of their race.[3]
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| Document:The Antisemitism Industry doesn’t speak for Jews. It speaks for Western elites | blog post | 14 March 2024 | Jonathan Cook | Film-maker Jonathan Glazer’s crime at the Oscars was to threaten the establishment’s stranglehold on the West’s Official Narrative about Israel – and itself |
References
- ↑ "Dehumanisation and Infrahumanisation"
- ↑ Gordon, Gregory S. (2017). Atrocity Speech Law: Foundation, Fragmentation, Fruition. Oxford University Press. p. 286. ISBN 978-0-19-061270-2
- ↑ "The Politics of Racist Dehumanisation in the United States"
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