On Inhumanity: Dehumanization and How to Resist It - David Livingstone Smith
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The Rwandan genocide, the Holocaust, the lynching of African Americans, the colonial slave trade: these are horrific episodes of mass violence spawned from racism and hatred. We like to think that we could never see such evils again–that we would stand up and fight. But something deep in the human psyche–deeper than prejudice itself–leads people to persecute the other: dehumanization, or the human propensity to think of others as less than human.
An award-winning author and philosopher, Smith takes an unflinching look at the mechanisms of the mind that encourage us to see someone as less than human. There is something peculiar and horrifying in human psychology that makes us vulnerable to thinking of whole groups of people as subhuman creatures. When governments or other groups stand to gain by exploiting this innate propensity, and know just how to manipulate words and images to trigger it, there is no limit to the violence and hatred that can result.
Drawing on numerous historical and contemporary cases and recent psychological research, On Inhumanity is the first accessible guide to the phenomenon of dehumanization. Smith walks readers through the psychology of dehumanization, revealing its underlying role in both notorious and lesser-known episodes of violence from history and current events. In particular, he considers the uncomfortable kinship between racism and dehumanization, where beliefs involving race are so often precursors to dehumanization and the horrors that flow from it.
On Inhumanity is bracing and vital reading in a world lurching towards authoritarian political regimes, resurgent white nationalism, refugee crises that breed nativist hostility, and fast-spreading racist rhetoric. The book will open your eyes to the pervasive dangers of dehumanization and the prejudices that can too easily take root within us, and resist them before they spread into the wider world.
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This post has 4 comments with rating of 5/5
December 18th, 2020
So glad I accidentally found this, thanks for the upload! It should probably also be under Misc. Non-fiction :)
December 18th, 2020
Not really interested in hearing views on dehumanization from people who dehumanize the unborn
December 19th, 2020
Oh please. Humans are the most rapacious species in earth’s history & doubly so when it comes to killing our own kind. Genocide is what we do. Do y’all have any idea how they cheered after Dresden, Tokyo, Hiroshima Nagasaki, etc etc?
‘Humans Are Genetically Predisposed to Kill Each Other
The rate of lethal violence is 7 times higher than the average for all mammals.’
Step back and view our species objectively from the outside, the way a zoologist would carefully observe any other animal, or see us the way every other creature perceives human beings. The brutal reality could not be more evident or more horrifying. We are the most relentless yet oblivious killers on Earth.
“Our violence operates far outside the bounds of any other species. Human beings kill anything. Slaughter is a defining behavior of our species. We kill all other creatures, and we kill our own. Read today’s paper. Read yesterday’s, or read tomorrow’s. The enormous industry of print and broadcast journalism serves predominantly to document our killing. Violence exists in the animal world, of course, but on a far different scale. Carnivores kill for food; we kill our family members, our children, our parents, our spouses, our brothers and sisters, our cousins and in-laws. We kill strangers. We kill people who are different from us, in appearance, beliefs, race, and social status. We kill ourselves in suicide. We kill for advantage and for revenge, we kill for entertainment: the Roman Coliseum, drive-by shootings, bullfights, hunting and fishing, animal roadkill in an instantaneous reflex for sport. We kill friends, rivals, coworkers, and classmates. Children kill children, in school and on the playground. Grandparents, parents, fathers, mothers–all kill and all of them are the targets of killing…” — R. Douglas Fields, Why We Snap, p. 286, 2016.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-new-brain/201610/humans-are-genetically-predisposed-kill-each-other
Embrace your inner psychopath & sleep like a baby.
December 19th, 2020
For the record, the colonial slave trade was not at all about racism and hatred. Victorious African tribes sold the conquered to the Portuguese.
Africans were not enslaved by Europeans because they were black, but because they were available.
Whites enslaved other whites in Europe for centuries before the first black slave was brought to the Western Hemisphere.
It is my understanding that there are more slaves on Earth right now than were involved in the “colonial slave trade”. They are of all races.
Just saying that while slavery is indeed dehumanizing, race or hatred are rarely motivators.
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