Refs:
Suarez, C. (2018). The Power Manual. New Society Publishers.
She draws here also on the work of Audre Lorde, Michel Foucault, Roland Barthes, and others.
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#Oppression
#PowerDynamics
#Exploitation
#Dehumanization
#Marginalized
#Equity
How oppression comes about through people's micro-interactions. 
Seven patterns of dominance:
1. Tolerance.
Allowing small doses of difference (especially those that are of benefit to my own or my company/organization's agenda).
But never enough to cause change to the power relationship.
Diversity, but not equity!
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(A thread )
Listen, hear me out, okay...?
The #protagonist, #antagonist relationship is foundational to #fascism - and is totally the discovery of fire regarding #psyops.
#Dehumanization is not only a weapon against people, but also a harbinger of ignorance, pretence and #prejudice.
As such, scapegoating is a powerful tool for any #politician to escape the people's ire, or to justify the invasion of foreign lands.
As #writers I think we've leaned on this crutch for way too long.
The Disappeared: Deported. Disappeared. Dehumanized.
#TheContrarian #disappeared #deportation #Dehumanization #ICE #trump
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/the-disappeared?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
#Trump posted a photo of himself holding up a picture claiming to show #KilmarAbregoGarcia’s tattoos that prove he’s MS-13.
The picture he’s holding has obviously been digitally altered to add the characters MS-13.
The source of this BS is a neo-Nazi X user who claims the tattoos are code for “MS-13.”
This is why you try people in court of #law & not on social media.
"In a stark recasting of Orwell’s original insight, in 2024 it was not Trump and his MAGA allies who cloaked their intentions in euphemism and ambiguity. Instead, it was mainstream media, pollsters, and political consultants who retreated into vagueness—minimizing or outright ignoring Trump's explicit threats in an effort to avoid accusations of bias, partisanship, or alarmism."
#Trump #Republicans #ICE #immigrants #cruelty #Nazis #dehumanization #lies #fascism #media
/6
"In the shadow of mid-20th-century atrocities, George Orwell warned us in his indispensable essay, 'Politics and the English Language,' that political speech often serves primarily to defend the indefensible through 'euphemism, question-begging, and sheer cloudy vagueness.' Today, this warning rings truer than ever.
~ Michael Podhorzer
#Trump #Republicans #ICE #immigrants #cruelty #Nazis #dehumanization #lies #fascism #media
/5
"The reason I think we're at the numbers we're at is because this movement has been building a very long time. And one of the things that we need to do when we reclaim America and an America for everybody is to push these people back under the rock they came from. Because that's really where this kind of mentality should be in a healthy society. They'll always be there, but they shouldn't be running everything."
#Trump #Republicans #ICE #immigrants #cruelty #Nazis #dehumanization #racism
/4
"There is the idea of othering and ... you can see the way the administration began these flights with individuals that they believed they had constructed this image of them as these terrible human beings. Again, although 90% of them do not have criminal records, but they could do it. They had brown skin."
~ Heather Cox Richardson
#Trump #Republicans #ICE #immigrants #cruelty #Nazis #dehumanization #lies #racism
/3
https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/how-trumps-greed-grift-and-racism
"They’re painted not as people, but as animals. As monsters. As rapists. As the scourge of American society. The messaging isn’t accidental. It is the exact kind of dehumanization that makes cruelty palatable, even desirable. ...
This is the playbook. This has always been the playbook. Turn the masses against the vulnerable. Make cruelty the point. Then repeat the lie until the truth chokes on its own breath."
#Trump #Republicans #ICE #immigrants #cruelty #Nazis #dehumanization #lies
/2
"Reminiscent of Hitler’s grotesque propaganda, where Jews were cast as vermin, stripped of their humanity so that no one would care when they were disappeared, the Trump apparatus is manufacturing the same cruelty, recast for modern America. The new 'vermin' are the immigrants. The undocumented. The vulnerable. The desperate."
~ Michael Cohen
#Trump #Republicans #ICE #immigrants #cruelty #Nazis #dehumanization #lies
/1
https://www.meidasplus.com/p/when-silence-wins-everyone-else-loses
The 'banality of evil' described by political theorist Hannah Arendt is taking hold in the United States.
What she saw in Hitler’s Germany, we can see in Trump’s America.
#Nazis #TrumpMusk #Deportations #Fascism #Coup #Dehumanization #Immigrants #Racism #USPol
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-04-10/hannah-arendt-germany-hitler
UPDATE: The Danish Club of Ottawa has released a statement re: Bente Nielsen's Islamophobic, racist post.
UPDATE: The Danish Club of Ottawa has released a statement re: Bente Nielsen's Islamophobic, racist post.
It’s begun.
The #SocialSecurity Admin this week entered the names & SSNs of >6,000 mostly Latino immigrants into a database it uses to track #dead people, effectively #erasing their ability to receive #benefits or #work legally in the #UnitedStates….
The move, requested by #DHS Secy [& dog killer] #KristiNoem, is aimed at putting pressure on the #undocumented immigrants to leave the country.
#trump #law #immigration #dehumanization #labor
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/10/self-deportation-immigrants-social-security-dead/
#Islamophobia #Racism #Dehumanization
“Arabs shouldn’t be allowed in any luxury restaurant” - Bente Nielsen is Director of the Danish Club of #Ottawa
You can let the club know what you think of their Islamophobic, racist director at: 
info@danishclubottawa.ca
#Islamophobia #Racism #Dehumanization
“Arabs shouldn’t be allowed in any luxury restaurant” - Bente Nielsen is Director of the Danish Club of #Ottawa
You can let the club know what you think of their Islamophobic, racist director at: info@danishclubottawa.ca
The goal is to cut those people off from using crucial financial services like bank accounts & credit cards, along w/their access to government benefits.
The effort hinges on a surprising new tactic: repurposing #SocialSecurity’s “death master file,” which for years has been used to track dead people who should no longer receive benefits, to include the names of living people who the govt believes should be TREATED AS IF THEY ARE DEAD.
"#ICE director says #deportations should be run like ‘#Amazon Prime for human beings’"
Jesus fucking Christ
The #sadism has no bottom. #Dehumanization is the gleeful loudly announced goal
All of the bigots and morons out there will love it or not care
None of this is going to end well, there is some really scary shit coming
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/09/ice-todd-lyons-deporation-amazon
When we learn about the #Holocaust, what is most terrifying and disturbing about it is the #dehumanization, the total #domination & the exercise of arbitrary violence.
We feel the terror in our bones.
And we are now seeing it play out in Palestine every single day.
