Violence+and+dehumanization+theory

Back to Emma's EE page =Explanation of the theory=
 * Dehumanization occurs whenever some human beings consider other human beings to be excluded from the moral order of being a human person
 * Central process in prejudice, racism, and discrimination
 * Becomes possible for normal, moral, people to perform acts of destructive cruelty

Key Points:
Victim often has no identity:

Victim often is not involved in community:

=Useful Studies=
 * Rape of Nanking (pre WWII Japan)
 * Sources:
 * Viklund, A. (2005). //Nanking massacre//. Retrieved from http://www.nanking-massacre.com/RAPE_OF_NANKING_OR_NANJING_MASSACRE_1937.html
 * In text citation: (Viklund, 2005)
 * Entire site focuses on the Nanking massacre, many photos and eyewitness accounts.
 * Rape of Rwanda
 * Nazi genocide of Jews

=Quotes on Dehumanization:=
 * “We thought of them as //things//, not people like us”- Japanese general reporting that it had been easy for his soldiers to brutally massacre Chinese civilians during Japan’s pre WWII invasion of China