Word: subhumanity
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...course, the more we convince ourselves that errant children are subhuman predators, the easier it gets to deny all children in poverty the resources and nurture they need. If they're the predators, we must be the vulnerable prey--the only real innocents around. And this probably explains why we can blithely identify with the man-boy in the frosted-cereal commercial while demanding that child criminals be punished like actual men. What could be better than being a great big kid, free of both the responsibilities of adulthood and the disabilities of youth, while the real kids are locked...
...gabber on the no. 1 talk-radio station in the No. 1 market called blacks "savages" and Haitian refugees "subhuman scum." Gays were "perverted misfits." Anyone who argued or spoke with an accent earned a raging "Get off my phone, you creep...
...Hillary Clinton may think a certain Congressman whose name rhymes with "thin witch" is a bastard or an s.o.b., but neither appellation has anything like the force of bitch. The meanest things you can say about a man boil down to attacks on a woman: the mother insult, implying subhuman status and moralsand men can experience its sting only indirectly, at a generation's remove...
...people, but it also requires our (those of us who are documented) complicit participation in that dehumanization. We are forced to claim our legal status at the expense of those of us who are "illegal." Because legal status is the requisite for humanness, to be "illegal" is to be subhuman. Therefore, Proposition 187 is a sharp attack on human rights which targets specific communities in California by denying them health care and education...
Many American historical documents have references to the systematic ferreting out and punishment of people who did not fit into the standard sexual mold. As Black Americans were seen to be somehow "subhuman," so were people who were thought to be "sexually deviant...