Question

How is dehumanization used as a tool to maintain power?

Answer 1

Dehumanization has fueled innumerable acts of violence, human rights violations, war crimes, and genocides. It makes slavery, torture, and human trafficking possible. People use dehumanization to justify greed, violence , and abuse. The manipulators do it to secure power or financial gain. Victim-blaming (“You made me do it!”) is a favorite strategy of many perpetrators. Like dehumanization, victim-blaming works by trying to taint and diminish the target of the violence, instead of focusing on the perpetrator as the actual source of wrong-doing.

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