Sentences with phrase «about dehumanizing»

the first half of the movie is about dehumanizing people, the second is about dropping dehumans into chaos.

What if it is, instead, about the dehumanizing effect of pursuing justice without care for who gets caught in the crossfire or which potentially innocent individuals get hurt?

In the end, what really rankles many scientists is Kass's belief that society has a duty to regulate research, and his frequent warnings about the dehumanizing effects of some technologies.

They ask no questions about dehumanizing work.

Not exact matches

There are borderline sexual assault scenarios that are viewed as standard procedure by much of the PUA crowd — this is clearly not the place to argue that but I feel it'd be wrong not to point out my disagreement with that point — but above and beyond all that are incredibly dehumanizing assumptions about both men and women that underly the process.

Second, Muslim leaders around the world have countenanced the largely negative and dehumanizing teaching about non-Muslims that we find in authoritative Islamic texts.

Moreover, such development requires a transcendent vision of the person, it needs God: without him, development is either denied, or entrusted exclusively to man, who falls into the trap of thinking he can bring about his own salvation, and ends up promoting a dehumanized form of development.

Those Christians killing natives and mistreating them did so in part BECAUSE they were told it was okay by their pastors and priests, they were directly dehumanized from the pulpits that allowed their members to go about their murder and mistreatment without guilt or punishment.

Also, it is disappointing to me to see some people casually speculating about NPD and promoting stereotypes which are dehumanizing to its sufferers.

Montesino would agree with generations of his interpreters that the Spanish dehumanized the indigenous but would disagree about what constituted the ultimate expression of it.

Abstract talk about the Other is of course dehumanizing.

Insofar as modern life becomes dehumanizing and isolating, rock has sung about this, tried to carve out artistic refuge from it, or otherwise sought to explore how one must deal with it.

Even if there is consent, it is dehumanizing to fantasize about and enact sexual violence against women.

When Paul called for the removal of the sinning man in 1 Cor., it wasn't about power or dehumanizing him; it was about protection of the Body and the ultimate protection salvation of the man.

There is something clincalizing and dehumanizing about clones, IVF, survival of the fittest, sleeping with everyone you have ever dated, genocide (last century — remember Adolf and Joe and the Chairman), and the scientific community and the tech community and the mature «brain lords» maybe need to address and look in the mirror why this is happening.

Nothing about that experience was anything but brutal, life denying, vengeful, and dehumanizing.

The costs of such heroics could be turned to what Midgley cares about, namely poverty, environmental depletion and other dehumanizing social conditions.

To me, going to McDonald's and ordering a Happy Meal is kind of brainwashing and dehumanizing... thinking about all the ingredients of things you eat, and how they're prepared, leads to increased engagement with the world and your own basic needs... a lot more analysis and critical thought, a lot less simple «acceptance» of what's given.

The foreign debt continues to be an issue and new voices have began to sound the need to look for ways to face it; (ii) At the national level two questions are concentrating increasing attention: one is the reassessment of the necessary role of the state to correct the distortions of a runaway market (currently discussed in Europe and in the discussions about the role the initiatives of «an active state has played in the economic development of Asian countries); the other is the need for a «participative democracy over against a purely representative formal democracy: in this sense the need to strengthen civil society with its intermediate organizations becomes an important concern; (iii) the struggle for collective and personal identity in a society in which forced immigration, dehumanizing conditions in urban marginal situations, and foreign cultural aggression and massification in many forms produce a degrading type of poverty where communal, family and personal identity are eroded and even destroyed.

One purpose of this chapter has been to provide tools and techniques for helping people to become aware of and deal constructively with their anger — not so that it will go away, but so that it can be used to bring about constructive changes in a dehumanizing society.

This paradox — we confine the guilty in dehumanizing spaces, but then devote resources to softening the experience — reflects a deep cultural ambivalence about punishment.

When I am trying to reach out to theists who demonize and dehumanize atheists, I talk about particular things that we have in common to which they have emotional attachments, attachments that are just as strong as their religious beliefs:

Even when our innate freedom is staring us in the face and beating within our chest and screaming from our minds, we look beyond it to listen to demeaning, dehumanizing and deliberately enslaving ideas about ourselves and Reality.

He plays Gregg Hurwitz» script completely straight, and what could have been a story about a child unable to come to terms with evil in the world instead becomes a dehumanizing mess that rides its high concept straight to hell.

One of the reasons, in fact, that I, Daniel Blake is so eloquent is because it's so much a film about language — about how imposed official codes dehumanize as they process people, fitting them into fixed, sanctioned slots.

Ken Loach's latest, the winner of this year's Palme d'Or at Cannes, is one of the most important films of 2016; there couldn't be a more timely moment for a film about the value of citizenship, and to issue a protest against the increasingly powerful dehumanizing forces of what you might call «client culture,» the corporate logic that reduces human lives to economic statistics or blips on screens.

There's nothing funny at all about this scene — it's just sad, sick, and revolting in a way that dehumanizes the characters and their situations to the point where we can't find them amusing, or even the least bit sympathetic.

There's nothing new about many of the concerns of this anarchic comedy: the growing gulf between parents and their adult kids; the conflict between work and family; the alienating, dehumanizing nature of the modern workplace; the role of women in corporate culture; the economic direction in which modern Europe is heading.

PURE has played a major role in changing the discussion about charter schools by exposing the dehumanizing and pricey discipline policies used by the Noble Charter Network, the misleading «100 % college - going» claim of Urban Prep charter schools, and the questionable financial practices of the UNO charter network.

In an op - ed featured in The Washington Post, Hanseul opens up about her own path, her support for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, and her concerns that the current political climate is dehumanizing immigrants and the tremendous value they bring to our country.

When we talk about our profession in these ways we play right into the reformer's game plan, which is to degrade and dehumanize the teaching force as mere delivery systems for test prep materials and canned curricula.

In Hangzhou - based artist Yang Zhenzhong's five - screen video installation Disguise (2015), assembly - line workers wearing white masks based on their own features go about their usual tasks, but with their movements choreographed to read as ritualistic, rather than rote, transforming a dehumanizing activity into something bordering on the spiritual.

«The craziest thing about blackness is that «black people» didn't create it, Europeans with a commercial interest in dehumanizing us created black people...» — Hank Willis Thomas, Gifted

William Faulkner, bane of every English student forced to read DWMs until they cry MEGO, had this to say about automobiles in his minor novel Pylon, «a dark and pessimistic novel, one that looks at the uncertainty of American society created by the dehumanizing effects of the machine age.»

Societies where the brain is engaged constantly, where human interaction dominates vs. isolated individuals engaged in disembodied communication about things that matter not at all wrt getting from birth to death, these are dehumanizing and this that we have now is enriching?

«The venom that's been spouted by Trump, the xenophobia, and the dehumanizing of different races and classes have been painful to watch,» she says, adding that several of her Middle Eastern clients have expressed anxiety about how Americans now treat them.