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fromLGBTQ Nation
2 months ago

The far-right's dehumanization of trans people is similar to the Nazi's treatment of Jewish people - LGBTQ Nation

Dehumanization, as a psychological and socio-political process, represents one of the most destructive phenomena in human history. It involves the denial of attributes that define individuals or social groups as human, thereby devaluing their moral status and legitimizing violence and cruelty against them.
Right-wing politics
Psychology
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

Shaming Someone Isn't the Same as Holding Them Accountable

Shaming asserts superiority, silences dissent, and often backfires, perpetuating social control and distorting moral understanding.
Books
fromStreetsblog
6 months ago

Book Excerpt Special: Jonathan Lethem's 'Program's Progress' - Streetsblog USA

A Different Kind of Tension contains surreal short stories blending class struggle, car-culture autocracy, perception-altering drugs, and dislocating, time-altering sexual experiences.
fromVulture
6 months ago

Pluribus Series-Premiere Recap: They Live

In the 1988 John Carpenter classic They Live, aliens have invaded the country without anyone knowing it - or, at least, without anyone of actual power and importance knowing. Then one day, a drifter in Los Angeles, played by the wrestler Roddy Piper, picks up a stray pair of sunglasses, puts them on, and sees the world as it truly is.
Television
Books
fromOpen Culture
6 months ago

Aldous Huxley to George Orwell: My Hellish Vision of the Future is Better Than Yours (1949)

Aldous Huxley praised Nineteen Eighty-Four but maintained that a pleasure-based, consumerist totalitarianism like Brave New World was the more likely future than brutal oppression.
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