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dehumanize

verb as in to deprive of dignity; treat as less than human

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verb as in remove the need for human skills

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Needless to say, dehumanizing people like this is a standard tactic for justifying abuse, harassment, and even violence.

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It’s something I can’t ignore because I’ve experienced being deported myself and the way they treat you and talk to you, so that you feel dehumanized.

Characterizing their identities as "waste" and "fraud" works like Kennedy's disparagement of disabled people: It dehumanizes anyone fascists view as sapping the "strength" of American society.

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The faculty council wrote that UCLA’s administrative communications “distort and misrepresent the unfolding genocide of Palestinians in Gaza and thereby contribute to the racist and dehumanizing erasure of Palestinian daily reality.”

Morris and Saavedra share how dehumanizing it felt to hear the rhetoric while imprisoned.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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