#dehumanisation — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #dehumanisation, aggregated by home.social.
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What is driving racism, hate and violence against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people?
* "The Voice campaign...brought racism many First Nations people experience daily to the fore."
A parliamentary inquiry "follows several violent incidents, including the attack on Camp Sovereignty in Melbourne in August 2025 (and importantly, a new attack on August 2 2026), and the alleged attempted bombing of an Invasion Day rally in Perth."
"At public hearings around the country, First Nations people and organisations have described racism in workplaces, schools, public institutions and online. They have also warned racist abuse is becoming more open, more organised and easier to spread."
"...Political campaigns don’t just reflect existing prejudice. They can create moments when hostile ideas become easier to express, repeat and share.Around Anzac Day and the March for Australia, more than 96% of the hate detected directly targeted First Nations identity. White supremacist claims (that is, posts implying or explicitly asserting the superiority of White, settler or European Australians) and dehumanising language made up almost 90% of the total hateful posts.Around March for Australia alone, white supremacy accounted for 69% of detected hate."
"The findings show something important: online hate follows recognisable patterns. It builds around political campaigns, public controversies and events connected with national identity."
"The parliamentary inquiry now has an opportunity to move from recognising the problem to acting on the evidence. " >>
https://theconversation.com/what-three-million-online-posts-reveal-about-anti-first-nations-hate-in-australia-289052* Understanding Anti First Nations Hate Online in Australia report >>
https://tacklinghate.org/lab-insights/understanding-anti-first-nations-hate-online-in-australia/
#FirstNations #dehumanisation #WhiteSupremacy #EthnoNationalism #NationalIdentity #racism #hostility #referendum #TheVoice #hate #TacklingHate #IndigenousPeoples #experience #SettlerSociety #violence -
What is driving racism, hate and violence against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people?
* "The Voice campaign...brought racism many First Nations people experience daily to the fore."
A parliamentary inquiry "follows several violent incidents, including the attack on Camp Sovereignty in Melbourne in August 2025 (and importantly, a new attack on August 2 2026), and the alleged attempted bombing of an Invasion Day rally in Perth."
"At public hearings around the country, First Nations people and organisations have described racism in workplaces, schools, public institutions and online. They have also warned racist abuse is becoming more open, more organised and easier to spread."
"...Political campaigns don’t just reflect existing prejudice. They can create moments when hostile ideas become easier to express, repeat and share.Around Anzac Day and the March for Australia, more than 96% of the hate detected directly targeted First Nations identity. White supremacist claims (that is, posts implying or explicitly asserting the superiority of White, settler or European Australians) and dehumanising language made up almost 90% of the total hateful posts.Around March for Australia alone, white supremacy accounted for 69% of detected hate."
"The findings show something important: online hate follows recognisable patterns. It builds around political campaigns, public controversies and events connected with national identity."
"The parliamentary inquiry now has an opportunity to move from recognising the problem to acting on the evidence. " >>
https://theconversation.com/what-three-million-online-posts-reveal-about-anti-first-nations-hate-in-australia-289052* Understanding Anti First Nations Hate Online in Australia report >>
https://tacklinghate.org/lab-insights/understanding-anti-first-nations-hate-online-in-australia/
#FirstNations #dehumanisation #WhiteSupremacy #EthnoNationalism #NationalIdentity #racism #hostility #referendum #TheVoice #hate #TacklingHate #IndigenousPeoples #experience #SettlerSociety #violence -
“Capitalist production doesn’t merely exploit workers economically; it strips them of their #humanity.”
#Capitalism #exploitation #dehumanisation
The Dehumanization of #Labor in Capitalist Production
https://sociology.institute/sociological-theories-concepts/dehumanization-labor-capitalist-production/ -
“Capitalist production doesn’t merely exploit workers economically; it strips them of their #humanity.”
#Capitalism #exploitation #dehumanisation
The Dehumanization of #Labor in Capitalist Production
https://sociology.institute/sociological-theories-concepts/dehumanization-labor-capitalist-production/ -
“If you’re selling #dehumanisation, those who are buying will feel no empathy for you when your time comes”
#ToxicMasculinity #patriarchy
https://www.thenerve.news/p/deborah-frances-white-andrew-tate-brothers-extradition-prison-farage-trump-toxic -
In her keynote at #FAccT2026, Lucy Suchman spoke about data:
#brutalization #dehumanisation #squash #technoCriticism #TechBros #innovation #efficiency #technoSolutionnism #productivity #MilInt #military #militaryAI #AIWar
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In her keynote at #FAccT2026, Lucy Suchman spoke about data:
#brutalization #dehumanisation #squash #technoCriticism #TechBros #innovation #efficiency #technoSolutionnism #productivity #MilInt #military #militaryAI #AIWar
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Great article! Well worth a read & please boost!
“Hannah Arendt Warned Us — How Israel Normalises Sadism in the Service of Its Settler Colonial Machine”
by Avigail Abarbanel in Avigail Abarbanel’s Fully Human Essays on Substack
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@[email protected]“When I was at school and later during my university studies my Zionist teachers taught that the Nazis were not content merely to kill Jews. Humiliation and the deliberate destruction of human dignity were a big part of the project itself — shaving heads, tattooing numbers, rape, medical experiments, degradation in every conceivable form, and all manner of deprivation before death. The cruelty was not incidental to the killing. It was the point. [..].
Israel is now doing precisely this to the Palestinians and the audacity of it is staggering”
https://open.substack.com/pub/avigail/p/hannah-arendt-warned-us-how-israel
#Press #SocialMedia #Gaza #Lebanon #PalestinianGenocide #Zionism #SettlerColonialism #Israel #Psychopathy #Sadism #Rape #Dehumanisation #Evil
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Great article! Well worth a read & please boost!
“Hannah Arendt Warned Us — How Israel Normalises Sadism in the Service of Its Settler Colonial Machine”
by Avigail Abarbanel in Avigail Abarbanel’s Fully Human Essays on Substack
@[email protected]
@[email protected]
@[email protected]“When I was at school and later during my university studies my Zionist teachers taught that the Nazis were not content merely to kill Jews. Humiliation and the deliberate destruction of human dignity were a big part of the project itself — shaving heads, tattooing numbers, rape, medical experiments, degradation in every conceivable form, and all manner of deprivation before death. The cruelty was not incidental to the killing. It was the point. [..].
Israel is now doing precisely this to the Palestinians and the audacity of it is staggering”
https://open.substack.com/pub/avigail/p/hannah-arendt-warned-us-how-israel
#Press #SocialMedia #Gaza #Lebanon #PalestinianGenocide #Zionism #SettlerColonialism #Israel #Psychopathy #Sadism #Rape #Dehumanisation #Evil
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Technology and dominance in the recent
First Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Leo XIV Magnifica Humanitas, 15 May 2026* Chapter 3: TECHNOLOGY AND DOMINANCE
Some of the topics discussed are:
Automation, dignity of work
Protecting freedom against dependencies and commercialization
Breaking the chains of new forms of slavery
The normalization of war
Force without limits
The military-industrial complex
Weapons and artificial intelligence
The crisis of multilateralism
The need to disarm words
Justice >>
https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html#CHAPTER_THREE* Existential risk from artificial intelligence >>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existential_risk_from_artificial_intelligence* Martin Heidegger, The Question Concerning Technology, 1954 >>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Question_Concerning_Technology
#humanism #human #performance #enhancement #RemainingHuman #transhumanism #PostHumanism #AI #algorithms #machines #governance #regulation #humanity #fallibility #automation #commercialisation #transformation #dehumanisation #slavery #CommonGood #war #multilateralism #justice #TechnologyAssessment #TA #TechnologicalWorldview #techne #technologies #ScientificConsensus #PublicSphere #FLI #risks #existence #nature #RawMaterials -
Technology and dominance in the recent
First Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Leo XIV Magnifica Humanitas, 15 May 2026* Chapter 3: TECHNOLOGY AND DOMINANCE
Some of the topics discussed are:
Automation, dignity of work
Protecting freedom against dependencies and commercialization
Breaking the chains of new forms of slavery
The normalization of war
Force without limits
The military-industrial complex
Weapons and artificial intelligence
The crisis of multilateralism
The need to disarm words
Justice >>
https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html#CHAPTER_THREE* Existential risk from artificial intelligence >>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existential_risk_from_artificial_intelligence* Martin Heidegger, The Question Concerning Technology, 1954 >>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Question_Concerning_Technology
#humanism #human #performance #enhancement #RemainingHuman #transhumanism #PostHumanism #AI #algorithms #machines #governance #regulation #humanity #fallibility #automation #commercialisation #transformation #dehumanisation #slavery #CommonGood #war #multilateralism #justice #TechnologyAssessment #TA #TechnologicalWorldview #techne #technologies #ScientificConsensus #PublicSphere #FLI #risks #existence #nature #RawMaterials -
Crashes at Lavenders Bridge, North Bellingen
* Just a short time ago two women were killed and another seriously injured after a motorist 'lost control' near the notorious Lavender Bridge and smashed into two cars parked at the riverside swimming spot. >>
https://coffscoast.newsofthearea.com.au/a-woman-has-tragically-died-in-a-crash-at-bellingen-on-thursday-afternoon* Today there was another serious incident involving two e-bikes. An ambulance was seen at the crash zone. An injured person was seen lying on the ground. (The ambulance is visible on the Kombu Flood Camera at 2026-05-24 11.26 ) >>
https://kombuwholefoods.com.au/floodcam/* The long road to a bike-friendly Australia >>
https://mastodon.au/@Bellingen/116626357349183983* In the design of the new 'Lavenders Bridge Replacement' bikes and foot traffic do not seem to be a feature. A lot of bitumen was smeared over the river banks to facilitate the convenience for cars (parking).
Image: North Bellingen, Lavender Bridge Black Spot by design
#MobilityDesign #LavendersBridge #cars #motorists #infrastructure #climate #ActiveTransport #footpaths #SharedStreet #cyclists #ProtectedBikeLanes #dehumanisation #sprawl #suburbia #traffic #aggression #RoadRage #RoadTrauma #CarDependency #FossilFuels #BellingenShire #accidents #crash #pedestrians
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Crashes at Lavenders Bridge, North Bellingen
* Just a short time ago two women were killed and another seriously injured after a motorist 'lost control' near the notorious Lavender Bridge and smashed into two cars parked at the riverside swimming spot. >>
https://coffscoast.newsofthearea.com.au/a-woman-has-tragically-died-in-a-crash-at-bellingen-on-thursday-afternoon* Today there was another serious incident involving two e-bikes. An ambulance was seen at the crash zone. An injured person was seen lying on the ground. (The ambulance is visible on the Kombu Flood Camera at 2026-05-24 11.26 ) >>
https://kombuwholefoods.com.au/floodcam/* The long road to a bike-friendly Australia >>
https://mastodon.au/@Bellingen/116626357349183983* In the design of the new 'Lavenders Bridge Replacement' bikes and foot traffic do not seem to be a feature. A lot of bitumen was smeared over the river banks to facilitate the convenience for cars (parking).
Image: North Bellingen, Lavender Bridge Black Spot by design
#MobilityDesign #LavendersBridge #cars #motorists #infrastructure #climate #ActiveTransport #footpaths #SharedStreet #cyclists #ProtectedBikeLanes #dehumanisation #sprawl #suburbia #traffic #aggression #RoadRage #RoadTrauma #CarDependency #FossilFuels #BellingenShire #accidents #crash #pedestrians
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The long road to a bike-friendly Australia
and the dehumanisation of cyclists* "At the rate Australian cities are building cycling networks, a cohesive system is probably decades away. What’s taking so long?
"NSW wants to double active transport trips in 20 years...But at the rate Australian cities are building cycling networks, a cohesive system is probably another 50 years away, experts speaking to The Fifth Estate warned. Progress is slow. (One bike bridge was recently installed in Melbourne after 37 years of lobbying and discussion.)"
"A 2024 report by The Australia Institute points out that less than 1 per cent of federal road funding goes to active transport infrastructure."
"Richter was one of 49 bike riders who died on Australian roads last year, up on the average of around 38 deaths per year between 2012-23. (Thousands more were hospitalised with serious injuries during that period.)." >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-24/active-transport-cycling-bikes-cities-safety/106710436* Dehumanization of cyclists predicts self-reported aggressive behaviour toward them: A pilot study >>
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1369847818308593?dgcid=author#MobilityDesign #cars #motorists #infrastructure #climate #ActiveTransport #footpaths #SharedStreet #cyclists #ProtectedBikeLanes #dehumanisation #sprawl #suburbia #traffic #aggression #RoadRage #RoadTrauma #CarDependency #FossilFuels #Australia
IMAGE: Children on scooters on a 'normal' Bellingen bitumen streetscape lacking a footpath or a cycle path. Nothing is protecting the flesh and blood from metal and steel.
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The long road to a bike-friendly Australia
and the dehumanisation of cyclists* "At the rate Australian cities are building cycling networks, a cohesive system is probably decades away. What’s taking so long?
"NSW wants to double active transport trips in 20 years...But at the rate Australian cities are building cycling networks, a cohesive system is probably another 50 years away, experts speaking to The Fifth Estate warned. Progress is slow. (One bike bridge was recently installed in Melbourne after 37 years of lobbying and discussion.)"
"A 2024 report by The Australia Institute points out that less than 1 per cent of federal road funding goes to active transport infrastructure."
"Richter was one of 49 bike riders who died on Australian roads last year, up on the average of around 38 deaths per year between 2012-23. (Thousands more were hospitalised with serious injuries during that period.)." >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-24/active-transport-cycling-bikes-cities-safety/106710436* Dehumanization of cyclists predicts self-reported aggressive behaviour toward them: A pilot study >>
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1369847818308593?dgcid=author#MobilityDesign #cars #motorists #infrastructure #climate #ActiveTransport #footpaths #SharedStreet #cyclists #ProtectedBikeLanes #dehumanisation #sprawl #suburbia #traffic #aggression #RoadRage #RoadTrauma #CarDependency #FossilFuels #Australia
IMAGE: Children on scooters on a 'normal' Bellingen bitumen streetscape lacking a footpath or a cycle path. Nothing is protecting the flesh and blood from metal and steel.
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A lawless new order: The destruction of societies and civilisations on a large scale.
* "A new normal where the eradication of infrastructure, agriculture, cities and towns fit for habitation and entire cultures, is acceptable to much of the world as a method of war." >>
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/apr/24/gaza-israel-lebanon-war* Israel's killing of journalists in Lebanon shows a lack of guardrails on its actions >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-25/israel-journalists-killed-lebanon-gaza/106582644
#war #violence #destruction #LawlessNewOrder #dehumanisation #WarTrauma #crime #law #journalism #witness #obliteration #civilisation -
A lawless new order: The destruction of societies and civilisations on a large scale.
* "A new normal where the eradication of infrastructure, agriculture, cities and towns fit for habitation and entire cultures, is acceptable to much of the world as a method of war." >>
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/apr/24/gaza-israel-lebanon-war* Israel's killing of journalists in Lebanon shows a lack of guardrails on its actions >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-25/israel-journalists-killed-lebanon-gaza/106582644
#war #violence #destruction #LawlessNewOrder #dehumanisation #WarTrauma #crime #law #journalism #witness #obliteration #civilisation -
“There is a social cohesion crisis going on..."
"Labor accused of ignoring anti-racism plan as documents reveal repeated pleas to take action. Federal Labor has been accused of dragging its feet on a plan to combat systemic racism in Australia, nearly 18 months after it received recommendations from the human rights commission." >>
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/apr/19/labor-accused-ignoring-anti-racism-plan-documents-reveal-repeated-pleas-take-action-ntwnfb
#cohesion #RoyalCommission #hate #racism #Islamophobia #Antisemitism #dehumanisation #violence #Australia #HumanRights -
“There is a social cohesion crisis going on..."
"Labor accused of ignoring anti-racism plan as documents reveal repeated pleas to take action. Federal Labor has been accused of dragging its feet on a plan to combat systemic racism in Australia, nearly 18 months after it received recommendations from the human rights commission." >>
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/apr/19/labor-accused-ignoring-anti-racism-plan-documents-reveal-repeated-pleas-take-action-ntwnfb
#cohesion #RoyalCommission #hate #racism #Islamophobia #Antisemitism #dehumanisation #violence #Australia #HumanRights -
Social cohesion and white supremacy in Australia
"Australia does have a serious problem with social cohesion, but it’s no good pretending it’s recent."
"Since the voice to parliament referendum emboldened the right, racists and bots swarm like flies on a turd to any Indigenous topic."
"The terror and violence usually happens on a case-by-case basis these days."
"When the Bondi royal commission was announced, there were loud calls for anti-Indigenous racism to be addressed, as well as antisemitism. The racism we endure, is, after all, as Australian as meat pies and Holden cars."
- Melissa Lucashenko >>https://www.theguardian.com/society/ng-interactive/2026/apr/19/melissa-lucashenko-on-rebuilding-social-cohesion-indigenous-australians-ntwnfb
#IndigenousPeoples #cohesion #violence #genocide #WhiteSupremacy #hate #racism #HateSpeechLaws #treaty #antisemitism #Australia #dehumanisation -
Social cohesion and white supremacy in Australia
"Australia does have a serious problem with social cohesion, but it’s no good pretending it’s recent."
"Since the voice to parliament referendum emboldened the right, racists and bots swarm like flies on a turd to any Indigenous topic."
"The terror and violence usually happens on a case-by-case basis these days."
"When the Bondi royal commission was announced, there were loud calls for anti-Indigenous racism to be addressed, as well as antisemitism. The racism we endure, is, after all, as Australian as meat pies and Holden cars."
- Melissa Lucashenko >>https://www.theguardian.com/society/ng-interactive/2026/apr/19/melissa-lucashenko-on-rebuilding-social-cohesion-indigenous-australians-ntwnfb
#IndigenousPeoples #cohesion #violence #genocide #WhiteSupremacy #hate #racism #HateSpeechLaws #treaty #antisemitism #Australia #dehumanisation -
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Min. 18: #dehumanisation, "three parts" working #definition on
"what it is in the #mind of the person doing #dehumanization and what it is to the person who's on the receiving end of that. [...]- It is the #CognitiveState of failing to perceive another human as fully human.
- It is the acts that express that cognitive state or otherwise entail the assertion that another human is not fully human.
- And then finally it's the #experience of being subjected to those acts by someone else."
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Min. 18: #dehumanisation, "three parts" working #definition on
"what it is in the #mind of the person doing #dehumanization and what it is to the person who's on the receiving end of that. [...]- It is the #CognitiveState of failing to perceive another human as fully human.
- It is the acts that express that cognitive state or otherwise entail the assertion that another human is not fully human.
- And then finally it's the #experience of being subjected to those acts by someone else."
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“Because They’re Animals”: Donald Trump, the War on Iran, and the Rules Nobody’s Enforcing
Operation Epic Fury" sounds like it was coined by a fourteen-year-old playing too much Call of Duty. In many ways, it's a perfect fit for the Peter Pan that Donald Trump has running the Pentagon. Urban Wronski on the War of Donald's Ear — how two homicidal maniacs borrowed one very willing ear, and launched a war. -
“We're going to have to reject #dehumanisation of opponents. We're going to have to move beyond “enemy” #narratives. We're going to have to emphasise cooperation and respect, and we're going to have to reduce the drivers of conflict.”
The new world order is here.
https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/03/21/the-new-world-order-is-here-and-neoliberalism-is-dead/ -
“We're going to have to reject #dehumanisation of opponents. We're going to have to move beyond “enemy” #narratives. We're going to have to emphasise cooperation and respect, and we're going to have to reduce the drivers of conflict.”
The new world order is here.
https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/03/21/the-new-world-order-is-here-and-neoliberalism-is-dead/ -
A processing system for Australia's first female leader?
Agriculture businessman David Farley and Hanson’s candidate "...likened former prime minister Julia Gillard to a “non-productive old cow” that should be destroyed ..."
The Narrandera-based irrigator mentioned the country’s first female leader while talking about "cows being destroyed using new abattoir technology."
“So it’s designed for non-productive old cows. Julia Gillard’s got to watch out.”
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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/mar/08/one-nation-candidate-contesting-sussan-leys-seat-likened-julia-gillard-to-non-productive-old-cow-ntwnfbFinal Solution Killing Centres
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/killing-centers-an-overview
#Women #Australia #misogyny #dehumanisation #Zeitgeist #IWD2026 #Hatespeech #abattoir -
A processing system for Australia's first female leader?
Agriculture businessman David Farley and Hanson’s candidate "...likened former prime minister Julia Gillard to a “non-productive old cow” that should be destroyed ..."
The Narrandera-based irrigator mentioned the country’s first female leader while talking about "cows being destroyed using new abattoir technology."
“So it’s designed for non-productive old cows. Julia Gillard’s got to watch out.”
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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/mar/08/one-nation-candidate-contesting-sussan-leys-seat-likened-julia-gillard-to-non-productive-old-cow-ntwnfbFinal Solution Killing Centres
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/killing-centers-an-overview
#Women #Australia #misogyny #dehumanisation #Zeitgeist #IWD2026 #Hatespeech #abattoir -
Epstein files suggest acts that may amount to crimes against humanity, say UN experts
"The experts said crimes outlined in documents released by the US justice department were committed against a backdrop of supremacist beliefs, racism, corruption and extreme misogyny. The crimes, they said, showed a commodification and dehumanisation of women and girls."
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/18/epstein-files-crimes-against-humanity-un-experts
#misogyny #crime #dehumanisation #commodification #racism #supremacy #corruption #UltraRich #RacketTheory
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Epstein files suggest acts that may amount to crimes against humanity, say UN experts
"The experts said crimes outlined in documents released by the US justice department were committed against a backdrop of supremacist beliefs, racism, corruption and extreme misogyny. The crimes, they said, showed a commodification and dehumanisation of women and girls."
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/18/epstein-files-crimes-against-humanity-un-experts
#misogyny #crime #dehumanisation #commodification #racism #supremacy #corruption #UltraRich #RacketTheory
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You make think you have attended enough lectures on #dehumanisation ,but really, you should be obsessed on this topic.
Dehumanisation is the single most important tool of #oppression, and it’s everywhere right now!
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You make think you have attended enough lectures on #dehumanisation ,but really, you should be obsessed on this topic.
Dehumanisation is the single most important tool of #oppression, and it’s everywhere right now!
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*grumbles* in general, when you're upset about wrongs, make a habit of considering the perspective of the VICTIMS, not only the perpetrators. Yes, we need to do something about them. But not by verbally and rhetorically revictimising the victims.
It's like they were cast as non-people by whoever wronged them, and then well meaning people come along and try to oppose the wrongs, while in their minds, the non-people are still non-people. Poor, beautiful, innocent non-people who shouldn't be wronged, but non-people nonetheless.
If you pay attention, you can see this dynamic play out everywhere on basically any topic.
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*grumbles* in general, when you're upset about wrongs, make a habit of considering the perspective of the VICTIMS, not only the perpetrators. Yes, we need to do something about them. But not by verbally and rhetorically revictimising the victims.
It's like they were cast as non-people by whoever wronged them, and then well meaning people come along and try to oppose the wrongs, while in their minds, the non-people are still non-people. Poor, beautiful, innocent non-people who shouldn't be wronged, but non-people nonetheless.
If you pay attention, you can see this dynamic play out everywhere on basically any topic.
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Response to the alien: Corporeal experience between selfhood and otherness
"The topographical enquiries that Waldenfels presents assume that the Other not only has its own times, but its own locations as well."
A Topography of the Other, Studies for a Phenomenology of the Other 1, Bernhard Waldenfels >>
https://www.suhrkamp.de/rights/book/bernhard-waldenfels-a-topography-of-the-other-fr-9783518289204Phenomenology of the Alien, Basic Concepts, by Bernhard Waldenfels >>
https://nupress.northwestern.edu/9780810127579/phenomenology-of-the-alien/
#interculturality #otherness #modernity #violence #experience #IntersubjectiveNormatively #alien #monolingualism #nationalism #foreigners #EthnoNationalism #phenomenology #EpistemicInjustice #dehumanisation #book -
Response to the alien: Corporeal experience between selfhood and otherness
"The topographical enquiries that Waldenfels presents assume that the Other not only has its own times, but its own locations as well."
A Topography of the Other, Studies for a Phenomenology of the Other 1, Bernhard Waldenfels >>
https://www.suhrkamp.de/rights/book/bernhard-waldenfels-a-topography-of-the-other-fr-9783518289204Phenomenology of the Alien, Basic Concepts, by Bernhard Waldenfels >>
https://nupress.northwestern.edu/9780810127579/phenomenology-of-the-alien/
#interculturality #otherness #modernity #violence #experience #IntersubjectiveNormatively #alien #monolingualism #nationalism #foreigners #EthnoNationalism #phenomenology #EpistemicInjustice #dehumanisation #book -
Truth-telling and justice
* “I can understand how Corowa is now known as the place where we have 40 neo-Nazis march up and down our main street on a Saturday morning. Now we’re starting to remove flags. I can understand how someone can see it cascading.”
A regional NSW council voted to remove the Aboriginal flag to promote ‘unity’ – it did the opposite >>
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jan/26/a-regional-nsw-council-voted-to-remove-the-aboriginal-flag-to-promote-unity-it-did-the-opposite* "The rise in voting support for One Nation, which mirrors the success of populist politicians in the United States and United Kingdom, provides further evidence of the rise of a more hardline, right-wing populism, which often celebrates rather than questions the history of European imperialism.”
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Opposition to moving Australia Day from January 26 is hardening: new research
https://theconversation.com/opposition-to-moving-australia-day-from-january-26-is-hardening-new-research-273795* "People don't understand that the current policies are still embedded in their colonial roots.” >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-25/truth-telling-closing-the-gap-indigenous-affairs-agenda-2026/106260862#PostReferendum #zeitgeist #SettlerSociety #FirstNationsPeoples #WhitePrivilege #WhiteSupremacy #EuropeanColonialism #FarRight #EthnoNationalism #dehumanisation #Empire #Australia #equality #governance #NSW #TruthTelling
Image: NSW North Coast tribal boundaries, Tindale's map 1974
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Truth-telling and justice
* “I can understand how Corowa is now known as the place where we have 40 neo-Nazis march up and down our main street on a Saturday morning. Now we’re starting to remove flags. I can understand how someone can see it cascading.”
A regional NSW council voted to remove the Aboriginal flag to promote ‘unity’ – it did the opposite >>
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jan/26/a-regional-nsw-council-voted-to-remove-the-aboriginal-flag-to-promote-unity-it-did-the-opposite* "The rise in voting support for One Nation, which mirrors the success of populist politicians in the United States and United Kingdom, provides further evidence of the rise of a more hardline, right-wing populism, which often celebrates rather than questions the history of European imperialism.”
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Opposition to moving Australia Day from January 26 is hardening: new research
https://theconversation.com/opposition-to-moving-australia-day-from-january-26-is-hardening-new-research-273795* "People don't understand that the current policies are still embedded in their colonial roots.” >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-25/truth-telling-closing-the-gap-indigenous-affairs-agenda-2026/106260862#PostReferendum #zeitgeist #SettlerSociety #FirstNationsPeoples #WhitePrivilege #WhiteSupremacy #EuropeanColonialism #FarRight #EthnoNationalism #dehumanisation #Empire #Australia #equality #governance #NSW #TruthTelling
Image: NSW North Coast tribal boundaries, Tindale's map 1974
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"Australia remains the only liberal democracy not to have adopted its own constitutional or statutory bill of rights. Instead there is a patchwork of local laws and international agreements...The Australian commitment to human rights is always subject to political whim."
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/18/for-all-the-talk-of-australian-values-our-rights-as-citizens-and-humans-remain-fragileHartmut Rosa, Situation and Constellation, On the Disappearance of Human Agency
"Particularly in our professional lives – but increasingly also in our leisure time – our decision-making is prescribed in advance by guidelines and forms, algorithms and apps, right down to the smallest of details. The role of situational, sensitive consideration and judgment is being replaced by the constellation-based machine logic of execution, which we wield on a daily basis. »Agree«/»Reject« – this is how agents of action turn into executors of actions.""...When spheres of discretion and judgment disappear and the creativity of human agency is eliminated from everyday practices of execution, we feel an increased sense of powerlessness. And as our power of judgment dwindles, so does our energy to act."
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https://www.suhrkamp.de/rights/book/hartmut-rosa-situation-and-constellation-fr-9783518588338#HumanRights #citizens #dehumanisation #BillOfRights #HumanAgency #HumanAction #PowerOfJudgment #machine #algorithm #robodebt #HumanInTheLoop #HITL #HeterogeneousEnsemble #assemblage #apparatus #ToDoList #governance
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"Australia remains the only liberal democracy not to have adopted its own constitutional or statutory bill of rights. Instead there is a patchwork of local laws and international agreements...The Australian commitment to human rights is always subject to political whim."
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/18/for-all-the-talk-of-australian-values-our-rights-as-citizens-and-humans-remain-fragileHartmut Rosa, Situation and Constellation, On the Disappearance of Human Agency
"Particularly in our professional lives – but increasingly also in our leisure time – our decision-making is prescribed in advance by guidelines and forms, algorithms and apps, right down to the smallest of details. The role of situational, sensitive consideration and judgment is being replaced by the constellation-based machine logic of execution, which we wield on a daily basis. »Agree«/»Reject« – this is how agents of action turn into executors of actions.""...When spheres of discretion and judgment disappear and the creativity of human agency is eliminated from everyday practices of execution, we feel an increased sense of powerlessness. And as our power of judgment dwindles, so does our energy to act."
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https://www.suhrkamp.de/rights/book/hartmut-rosa-situation-and-constellation-fr-9783518588338#HumanRights #citizens #dehumanisation #BillOfRights #HumanAgency #HumanAction #PowerOfJudgment #machine #algorithm #robodebt #HumanInTheLoop #HITL #HeterogeneousEnsemble #assemblage #apparatus #ToDoList #governance
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Former Border Patrol Agent Speaks Out
'....always been a #racist institution'
https://m.youtube.com/shorts/P3M9xTCmzyQ
#Dehumanisation #NaziUSA #migrants #whitesupremacy #rapeculture #
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Former Border Patrol Agent Speaks Out
'....always been a #racist institution'
https://m.youtube.com/shorts/P3M9xTCmzyQ
#Dehumanisation #NaziUSA #migrants #whitesupremacy #rapeculture #
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Watching a talk of Jared Bell with animator and animation director Samantha Youssef on the propaganda hidden in Andor: Subverting Radicalism: How Andor and All Films Do It!
To give you an idea who she is, this is her latest blogpost:
https://www.studio-technique.com/blog/2025/11/30/animation-tip-emotional-range
Edit to add the talks and more: https://www.studio-technique.com/blog/2025/8/20/conversations-on-blockbuster-hollywood
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Watching a talk of Jared Bell with animator and animation director Samantha Youssef on the propaganda hidden in Andor: Subverting Radicalism: How Andor and All Films Do It!
To give you an idea who she is, this is her latest blogpost:
https://www.studio-technique.com/blog/2025/11/30/animation-tip-emotional-range
Edit to add the talks and more: https://www.studio-technique.com/blog/2025/8/20/conversations-on-blockbuster-hollywood
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Reciprocity failed, leading to a block justified by personal weakness. This act feels like dehumanisation. When dignity is refused, speculation about the motive is a necessary part of self-protection.
https://weblog.kalvin.my/psychology-update-wednesday-12-november-2025/
#psychology #mentalhealth #socialmedia #discrimination #reciprocity #blog #neurodiversity #onlinecommunity #communication #selfcare #wellbeing #justice #humanrights #dehumanisation #speculation #personalstory #mentalillness #community #growth #learning #awareness
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"Silicon Valley leaders are no longer merely building tools for the battlefield; they are being formally integrated into its command structure"
"AI for War: Big Tech Empowering Israel’s Crimes and Occupation", by Marwa Fatafta for Al-Shabaka: https://al-shabaka.org/briefs/ai-for-war-big-tech-empowering-israels-crimes-and-occupation/ @palestine
#dehumanisation #squash #technoCriticism #StartUpNation #TechBros #innovation #efficiency #technoSolutionnism #productivity #strikes #DefundIsrael #patriotism #JewishSupremacy #MilInt #military #army #IDF #Unit8200 #Gaza #warOnGaza #israel #tech #technology #AI #data #Microsoft #warCrimes #ethnicCleansing #militaryAI #Cloud #OpenAI #IDF #genocideSupport #entanglement #complicity #complicityInGenocide #AlShabaka
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"Silicon Valley leaders are no longer merely building tools for the battlefield; they are being formally integrated into its command structure"
"AI for War: Big Tech Empowering Israel’s Crimes and Occupation", by Marwa Fatafta for Al-Shabaka: https://al-shabaka.org/briefs/ai-for-war-big-tech-empowering-israels-crimes-and-occupation/ @palestine
#dehumanisation #squash #technoCriticism #StartUpNation #TechBros #innovation #efficiency #technoSolutionnism #productivity #strikes #DefundIsrael #patriotism #JewishSupremacy #MilInt #military #army #IDF #Unit8200 #Gaza #warOnGaza #israel #tech #technology #AI #data #Microsoft #warCrimes #ethnicCleansing #militaryAI #Cloud #OpenAI #IDF #genocideSupport #entanglement #complicity #complicityInGenocide #AlShabaka
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The elephant in the #UN room: the recognition of #Israel as the "land without a people for a people wiithout a land" implicitly meant the #dehumanisation of the #Palestinians. Safeguarding the continuation of #colonialism beyond #European borders lead to the #nakba, the #occupation, the #genocide in #Gaza and on the West bank. Stopping the horror is a huge u-turn to make from the post war colonial stance and the "no humans involved" rhetoric. That duality is still #racist #complicity. STOP NOW.
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The elephant in the #UN room: the recognition of #Israel as the "land without a people for a people wiithout a land" implicitly meant the #dehumanisation of the #Palestinians. Safeguarding the continuation of #colonialism beyond #European borders lead to the #nakba, the #occupation, the #genocide in #Gaza and on the West bank. Stopping the horror is a huge u-turn to make from the post war colonial stance and the "no humans involved" rhetoric. That duality is still #racist #complicity. STOP NOW.
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NT attorney general criticised after confirming family link to hit-and-run driver
"The Northern Territory’s attorney general, Marie-Clare Boothby, has faced criticism after confirming she is related to a man who was spared prison last week over a hit-and-run car crash that killed an Aboriginal man."
"Marie-Clare Boothby, an architect of Country Liberal party’s hardline crime policies promising ‘real consequences’ for offenders, confirmed 24-year-old Jack Danby was her sister’s son-in-law."
"Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory are 15 times more likely to be killed by a car than pedestrians elsewhere."
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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/sep/21/northern-territory-attorney-general-confirms-hit-run-driver-family-link
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NT attorney general criticised after confirming family link to hit-and-run driver
"The Northern Territory’s attorney general, Marie-Clare Boothby, has faced criticism after confirming she is related to a man who was spared prison last week over a hit-and-run car crash that killed an Aboriginal man."
"Marie-Clare Boothby, an architect of Country Liberal party’s hardline crime policies promising ‘real consequences’ for offenders, confirmed 24-year-old Jack Danby was her sister’s son-in-law."
"Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory are 15 times more likely to be killed by a car than pedestrians elsewhere."
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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/sep/21/northern-territory-attorney-general-confirms-hit-run-driver-family-link
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Remember the 'callous' fatal hit-run driver's home detention in the NT?
"The NT's attorney-general has been accused of failing to declare a conflict of interest over her relation to fatal hit-and-run driver Jake Danby."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-19/nt-attorney-general-related-to-hit-run-driver-jake-danby/105793244NT DPP considering appeal of 'callous' fatal hit-run driver's home detention
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-17/nt-appeal-call-in-shocking-aboriginal-hit-and-run-death/105780750
#pedestrians #cars #motorists #speeding #RoadTrauma #HitAndRun #culture #law #IndigenousPeoples #dehumanisation #HateCrime #RuleOfLaw #ConflictOfInterest #Australia -
Remember the 'callous' fatal hit-run driver's home detention in the NT?
"The NT's attorney-general has been accused of failing to declare a conflict of interest over her relation to fatal hit-and-run driver Jake Danby."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-19/nt-attorney-general-related-to-hit-run-driver-jake-danby/105793244NT DPP considering appeal of 'callous' fatal hit-run driver's home detention
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-17/nt-appeal-call-in-shocking-aboriginal-hit-and-run-death/105780750
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NT DPP considering appeal of 'callous' fatal hit-run driver's home detention
"The NT has the nation's highest rate of pedestrian deaths, with the majority of victims being Indigenous people, and data shows one in four drivers do not stop to help...Incidents like this are a stark reminder of the systemic challenges our communities continue to face — ongoing racism, inequity and a justice system that too often fails to hold offenders fully accountable."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-17/nt-appeal-call-in-shocking-aboriginal-hit-and-run-death/105780750
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NT DPP considering appeal of 'callous' fatal hit-run driver's home detention
"The NT has the nation's highest rate of pedestrian deaths, with the majority of victims being Indigenous people, and data shows one in four drivers do not stop to help...Incidents like this are a stark reminder of the systemic challenges our communities continue to face — ongoing racism, inequity and a justice system that too often fails to hold offenders fully accountable."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-17/nt-appeal-call-in-shocking-aboriginal-hit-and-run-death/105780750
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It all began with "a land without a people" never meaning uninhabited land, just meaning Palestinians aren't people. The rhetoric used by Zionists hasn't changed, its just being expressed more openly. It all began in 1948, not in 2023.
#dehumanisation #racism #fascism #colonialism #zionism
https://qudsnen.co/marco-rubio-calls-palestinians-barbaric-animals-claims-everything-began-with-october-7-operation/ -
Are 'ordinary mums and dads' making 'bad apples' ?
Caught up in tight-knit webs of hate“There was a range of grievances on display about perceived immigration rates on Sunday, but it was clear for many that the return to an imagined white Australia was a central theme...It’s not that white supremacy, which was present clearly yesterday, is something that the neo-Nazis in some evil, secretive fashion introduced into the political mainstream. It is something that has always been present in parts of the mainstream." >>
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/sep/02/how-neo-nazis-used-the-shield-of-ordinary-mums-and-dads-at-australia-anti-immigration-rallies-to-sell-white-supremacy-ntwnfb"The March for Australia’s racism can’t just be blamed on far-right ‘extremists’ - it has been enabled by the mainstream." >>
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/01/understanding-anti-immigration-march-protest-australian-mainstream-society-ntwnfb
#HateCrime #violence #FarRight #HyperNormalisation #BatWieldingGangs #Nazism #IndigenousPeoples #dehumanisation #Australia #mainstream #ImaginedCommunity #decline #ressentiment #WhiteSupremacy #EthnoNationalism #EnablingSystems #SettlerSociety #grievances #WhiteEntitlement #RottenAppleTheory