Sentences with phrase «dehumanizing language»

It is an entirely different thing when the president of the United States uses the same dehumanizing language in public discourse.

Using dehumanizing language not only affects our perceptions of the «enemy»; it also affects the «enemy's» perceptions of us.

BC doesn't think he's wielding a club, but using degrading and dehumanizing language, making demeaning assumptions, and holding out the threat of eternal torture for honest disagreement — regardless of the source of such «wisdom» — is absolutely an example of club wielding.

As our Facebook timelines, Twitter feeds, family reunions and conversations at the park fill up with political rhetoric, mudslinging and dehumanizing language, Christians have a choice.

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These sexual acts have simply become a socially acceptable way of excusing dehumanizing each other, of abuse, abuse grooming, oppression, language of hate, rape, and violence.

Now let me be clear: I believe the post exhibits homophobia, not because of the author's conservative position on same - sex marriage, and not because the author intended to be hateful, but because the post employs degrading, fear - based language to dehumanize gay and lesbian people.

Our nation has, of course, always contained people who, needing to denigrate and dehumanize others, have relied on racist and sexist language.

The dehumanizing effect of language, of imposed codes of behavior, is a key theme in some other recent political films.

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.

Okja, Bong's Netflix - produced, environmentalist - themed adventure fantasy, also draws from 2013's Snowpiercer, the filmmaker's first English - language effort, specifically in its clear contempt for dehumanizing capitalism.