Sentences with phrase «using dehumanizing»

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

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.

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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.

It is understandable why the New York Times's Editorial Board would conclude that Christians view sinners as inferior — the tragic history of Christianity, even within our own country, offers many examples of Christians who have used sin as an excuse to dehumanize, discriminate, and hate others.

Paul refers to the dangerous power of words, all words, when used to dehumanize another human being.

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

WORLD: We have to be careful not to dehumanize groups of people in monolithic stereo types like we seem to do when we use the words Christains or gays or atheists or religious people.

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.

Behavioral modification programs using aversive therapy have conditioned some homosexuals against attraction to their own sex, but most frequently they have been unable to replace that with attraction to the opposite sex, a dehumanizing result.

Any use of power that suppresses the loving exercise of gifts is an abuse that ultimately leads to the dehumanizing of persons.

We don't use «fetus» to describe the unborn to dehumanize them; we do it because a fetus is morally and legally different from a baby.

«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.

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.

In fact, they used many of the same divisive tactics to dehumanize our fellow New Yorkers in the recent election.

love being dehumanized and used as a toy for entertainment, humiliation and sexual service.

This isn't the ultimate sci - fi opus to reflect our dehumanizing and debauched consumption of media, but it does step beyond Collins's novel to use reality television as an almost interactive storytelling tool.

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.

Dominika learns to use her body as a weapon, but struggles to maintain her sense of self during the dehumanizing training process.

Why do people often use the term «savages» to dehumanize another race or group of individuals?

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.

Rather than use corporal punishment, which is dehumanizing and ineffective, educators should use practices more likely to foster self - control and desirable student attitudes and behaviors.

Using assessments in decontextualized ways is harmful and dehumanizing.

Both a sly, dehumanizing, reference to the infamous Windows system software «blue screen of death» and a shrewd art - historical reference, the piece equates the chasing of artistic legend with suicide, and it uses standard technology — the light emitted by a television — to evoke a supposed cultural masterpiece.

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.

... Too often, however, the word has been used by whites as a tool to belittle, oppress, or dehumanize African Americans.

It's upsetting to hear that we as a society are still using blanket statements to shame and dehumanize people from deciding what lies in the way of happiness.

They appear to merely reflect a desire to be seen as doing «something» rather than a firm determination to avoid dehumanizing the use of force.

An ATS or ASCII resume is a necessary complement to that resume but should never be the ONLY tool a job seeker uses since they dehumanize the document.

In addition, those adults using peer influence solely for behavior management purposes continue a process that is both discouraging and dehumanizing for adolescents.