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dehumanization

[ dee-hyoo-muh-nahy-zey-shuhnor, often, -yoo- ]

noun

  1. the act of regarding, representing, or treating a person or group as less than human:

    Dehumanization of the enemy is often what sustains the rationale for a war.

    Before trafficked humans are fully enslaved, they are drugged, tortured, and abused as part of the process of dehumanization.

  2. the process of depriving a person or population of human qualities or attributes such as compassion, dignity, individuality, etc.:

    When science is not touched by a sense of moral values, it works—as it has done fairly consistently over the past century—toward a complete dehumanization of the social order.



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Reactions to both events are driven by ignorance, disregard, and dehumanization of an underclass of people of color.

If you look at every place where there was a mass dispossession, there was first a massive campaign of dehumanization.

It meant challenging the deceit and dehumanization on both sides.

I feel that dehumanization is the only way one can successfully abuse another.

This most recent example of blatant dehumanization of the Ethiopian community must be addressed at the highest levels.

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