Linguistically, the president's metaphors for defining the «enemy» are frightfully similar to the Nazis»
dehumanizing terms for Jews, communists and other «un-Germans.»
Pro-choice advocates have trained their focus on the rights of the mother, and attempted to sidestep the rights of the unborn child by using
dehumanizing terms that at least downplay the child's personhood.
Not exact matches
(I know that the
term «homeless» as an identifier can feel
dehumanizing and that is not my intent in any way.
I have to remind myself of this now and then, when I see people discussing me on the internet in
terms that
dehumanize and reduce.
Rather, the new and ominous possibility on the near -
term horizon was something quite different: the happy, if thoroughly
dehumanized and massively coercive, dystopia of Huxley's brilliant imagination.
These
terms dehumanize and limit the parent's role to that of an incubator.
«Personally, I believe in the 21st Century, it's time to say there is no such thing as a witch and to decry the practice of using such a
term to
dehumanize vulnerable women,» he said.
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.
Why do people often use the
term «savages» to
dehumanize another race or group of individuals?