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On Inhumanity - Dehumanization and How to Resist It (Hardcover)
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On Inhumanity - Dehumanization and How to Resist It (Hardcover)
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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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