There's a dark political history to language that strips people of their dignity
- Written by William A. Donohue, Distinguished Professor of Communication, Michigan State University
Dehumanizing language often precedes genocide.
One tragic example: Extreme dehumanizing language was a strong contributor to the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. As I have written, the Hutu majority used a popular radio station to continually refer to Tutsi tribal members, a minority in Rwanda, as “cockroaches.”
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