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Are Hamas fighters "human animals"?
Dehumanization is not the way forward
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From Human Animals to Bloodthirsty Monsters
The rhetoric of dehumanization in Israel's war against Hamas
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"Daddy's Home!"
A Freudian Take on Tucker Carlson's Beating Fantasy
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David Livingstone Smith
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Unmaking Race: Part One
A guide for the perplexed
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David Livingstone Smith
5
What's Wrong With This Picture?
The persistence of a racist trope in popular culture
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Holy Fascism
An Essay for Christmas
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Unmaking Race, Part Three: Why I'm Feeding the Lion
A Guest Post by Subrena E. Smith
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Subrena Smith
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Pure Political Cocaine
Reflections on the Trump assassination attempt
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David Livingstone Smith
5
Blood Libels Old and New
Trump, Vance, Williamson and the Dehumanization of Haitians
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Dehumanization, Humiliation, and Cruelty
Have you ever wondered why those who dehumanize others expend so much time and effort humiliating and degrading those whom they dehumanize?
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The Barbarian Solution
American Politics on the Road to Fascism
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Why I Like Freud So Much
Part Two: The unconscious mind
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David Livingstone Smith
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