Dehumanization in the Internet World

Welcome to the World of High-Tech Group-Think

If the term “dehumanization” sounds eerily dark, that’s because it is. It’s essentially the psychological mechanism that hides behind the masks which are the faces who’ve committed the worst atrocities, things like The Holocaust and public lynchings, things like senseless murder, all are carried out by agents who’ve successfully rendered, at least in their own minds, the party they aggress to be inhuman.

Victim blaming is a classic example of dehumanization, where the victim is blamed for an injustice done to them because of their perceived status or social class, be it woman, immigrant, minority, religious affiliation, or even ideological affiliation. Even worse, the person doesn’t actually have to even belong to that class, we can simply mistake someone for a woman, immigrant, minority, etc.

Dehumanization is also one of the most prominent intellectual tricks of abuse because few can convince themselves and others that abuse is acceptable, so they need those who wish to carry out abusive acts need to find a way to convince others why this case of abuse is acceptable. In order to do so, they dehumanize.

Beyond just the terrifying thought of the idea of the latent propensity that we all have to dehumanize others, hidden and lurking within us, waiting to be fed, is the fact that, by all measures, it’s likely becoming more prevalent due to the technological forces which are shaping our world.

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