Sentences with phrase «on dehumanizing»

It makes sense if you take that as a critical commentary on the dehumanizing effect of war or training or both, but that may be giving too much credit where none is due.

Good job on dehumanizing a large group of foreign women and turning them into sex objects, Gizmodo.

Not exact matches

To have someone clearly see me and ignore my «hello» and walk on by is the most dehumanizing experience.

Companies run the risk of dehumanizing the customer service process by relying too heavily on automation or canned digital responses.

«At this point I was grossly offended embarrassed dehumanized and started Recording,» Walker, whose name on Facebook is Ernest Blackbatman, wrote in a post accompanying a video that he recorded.

His concern, evidently, is that demanding cheer is demeaning, exploitative and dehumanizing, but psychology blog Mind Hacks, which commented thoughtfully on Noah's piece, notes that forcing people to fake emotions also has negative practical consequences.

For example, Facebook defines hate speech as a direct attack — dehumanizing speech, statements of inferiority or calls for exclusion or segregation — on people from protected groups.

however, * by * his own Church's standards, it would have ultimately been dehumanizing for her if she received communion on false pretenses.

Focusing on the fantasy and ignoring the reality of who and what humans are is also dehumanizing.

Our society fails to present a coherent sense of what a good life should look like or how one arrives at a good life; and without a sense of purpose, the demands that fall on teens to «get into a good college» seem arbitrary and dehumanizing.

Readers will remember Eldridge Cleaver's graphic confession that in committing rape he was striking out against a repressive social order (though» later on Cleaver saw this crime as dehumanizing to both the perpetrator and the victim).

Longstanding patriarchal attitudes and customs only heighten the dehumanizing effects of global capitalism on these women.

Sure, Mitt's statement wasn't the best, and it does give us a taste of the dehumanizing that goes on in the corporate world.

These are not pacifistic, meek, and mild responses where we allow ourselves to get trampled on, but are actually subversive and empowering forms of standing up for our humanity in the face of dehumanizing evil.

When we focus on numbers we dehumanize people.

Feminist theology requires that we reflect on all that is dehumanizing and oppressive, everything that stands in the way of the liberation of all people.

Responding to Garrett Hardin's «lifeboat ethics,» for instance, such people would say it is better to take everyone on board and to let the boat sink rather than for those in the lifeboat to dehumanize themselves by keeping others out.

Paul deconstructs these claims, showing that they themselves are dehumanizing, based on «the flesh.»

Trump's faith, «bigot - baiting» in Bakersfield, and the dehumanizing policies of Amnesty International are all on the agenda.

It is women who are taking the lead in this global struggle, because feminization of poverty, violence against women, dehumanizing treatment of women and all other forms of pains imposed on women drive them to fight back.

Burns is writing a dissertation that bears on many of the problems of a complex and globalizing economy — the kinds of issues that Greider addresses in a more straightforward way Are the massive forces of the global economy dehumanizing the workplace?

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.

Bottom line is there is simply no other religion on earth that draws such sharp distinction between its own members and others, or spends as much time condemning and dehumanizing those who merely choose not to follow its dogma.

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.

There is simply no other religion on earth as ISLAM that draws such sharp distinction between its own members and others, or spends as much time condemning and dehumanizing those who merely choose not to follow its dogma.

Through his assault on his fears of weakness, a psychic numbing takes place which is then intended to be turned into aggressiveness toward a dehumanized «enemy.»

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.

So when we debate an «issue» and forget that it is backed by people — imperfect, wounded, beloved people on both sides — we dehumanize each other.

On the contrary, political and cultural efforts to rationally solve the problem of man and woman — and we are, to be frank, in the midst of such Utopian spasms — will almost certainly be harmful, even dehumanizing — to man, to woman, and especially, to children — not least because the matters are so delicate and private, and their deeper meanings inexpressible.

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

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.

Remember that one of the most powerful things that the Interhamwe did in the lead - up to the Rwandan genocide was to use propaganda (for example, via the Milles Collines radio station) to insult them, degrade them, accuse them of crimes they had not committed, and generally, to blame everything on them and dehumanize them in the process.

According to statement, «the question remains, if not to mortify, dehumanize and break our National Publicity Secretary, who has been very vocal against the APC administration, and of course to send a signal to others critical of the government, what else would have informed the decision to produce him in court in handcuffs, even when his case does not border on security threat?»

Loosely based on the graphic novel by Mark Millar and J.G. Jones, Wanted opens with a setup straight out of a Charles Atlas ad: Wesley Gibson (James McAvoy) is a skinny accounts manager at a dehumanizing firm who is bullied by his fat, repellent boss and cuckolded by his presumed best friend.

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.

It's not hard to give her some leeway early on (she is, after all, a grieving mother haunted by her own actions just before her daughter's horrific murder and left in a state of emotional and legal limbo by the lack of progress on the case), but by the end it's hard not to be sick and tired of the manner in which she constantly uses that as an excuse to dehumanize everyone around her, whether it be her surviving teenage son (Lucas Hedges), a local with an inexplicable crush on her (Peter Dinklage), or the aforementioned Sheriff Bill Willoughby (Woody Harrelson), who isn't so much a bad man as he is a complacent one.

When the crime is as horrifically dehumanizing and widespread as the one covered here, it's a dilemma to decide, but our instinct — and it's the initial and correct impulse of Kondracki and Kirwan — is to look for the source, confront it head - on, and then move up the ladder.

Baseball player character study «The Phenom» very rarely takes place on the field, but within the tormented silence of a young athlete who has been dehumanized by his father into a pitching machine.

And for the students who identify with targeted groups, it can be «dehumanizing not to have their experiences addressed in schools and by their teachers who they spend so much time with,» says former teacher and school administrator Aaliyah El - Amin, now a lecturer and researcher on educational justice at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Hyper - individualization does precisely what the emerging body of research says it does and more: it isolates children, it breeds competition, it assumes that children can learn entirely on their own, and it dehumanizes the learning environment, reducing the human experience of learning down to a mechanistic process, one where children become the objects of learning as opposed to the subjects of their own educational narrative.»

Shipwrecked on a seemingly deserted tropical island, Charles Prendick stumbles across the horror of Dr Moreau's laboratory, where the latter creates dehumanized beasts.

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.

On the other hand, it is viewed, derisively, as a dehumanized dead - end of painting.

Wilson's ample oeuvre, commenting on over-sexualized, dehumanized and commodified woman body, contains elements from various genres that still heavily dominate contemporary art practice.

Art holds the potential to dehumanize, but what's on exhibit is just how slippery that word is.

Originally displayed at the 1997 Munster Sculpture Project in Germany, The Dead Teach the Living (1997) is a group of computer - reconstructed heads cast in white plaster that show different racial stereotypes, which raises questions on how science has been used to dehumanize racial groups.

Cyprien Gaillard: «Today Diggers, Tomorrow Dickens» (closes on Saturday) The familiar convention of giant, slightly altered, out - of - context ready - mades arrayed in a pristine gallery is reiterated by an artist best known for brutal videos that document the dehumanizing scale and effect of immense Eastern - bloc apartment complexes.

Calling our clients «clients» doesn't glorify lawyers; calling them «customers,» on the other hand, dehumanizes us.

«On Banning Autonomous Lethal Systems: Human Rights, Automation and the Dehumanizing of Lethal Decision - making» by Peter Asaro in International Review of the Red Cross.

ON ENCOUNTERING DEHUMANIZING HR ATTITUDES: In an economy where executives are looking to cut jobs and budgets, they start with the departments that don't produce revenue, like HR.