Making Monsters: The Uncanny Power of Dehumanization Smith David Livingstone
Making Monsters: The Uncanny Power of Dehumanization Smith David Livingstone A leading scholar explores what it means to dehumanize others--and how and why we do it. You would see an infant who's…
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Making Monsters: The Uncanny Power of Dehumanization Smith David Livingstone
A leading scholar explores what it means to dehumanize others--and how and why we do it. You would see an infant who's just learning to smile, and it smiles at you, but you still kill it." So a Hutu man explained to an incredulous researcher, when asked to recall how he felt slaughtering Tutsis in Rwanda in 1994. "I wouldn't have accepted that they were human beings.
How do some people come to believe that their enemies are monsters, and therefore easy to kill?In Making Monsters David Livingstone Smith offers a poignant meditation on the philosophical and psychological roots of dehumanization. Such statements are shocking, yet we recognize them; we hear their echoes in accounts of genocides, massacres, and pogroms throughout history. Drawing on harrowing accounts of lynchings, Smith establishes what dehumanization is and what it isn't.
When we dehumanize our