What is Dehumanization?
'''Dehumanization''' is the act of denying that a person is fully human, or treating a person like they are not fully human. Dehumanization makes it easier for people to be cruel to others, and inflict suffering.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Haslam|first=Nick|date=2006|title=Dehumanization: An Integrative Review|url=https://newclasses.nyu.edu/portal/site/bd325357-284c-4867-9164-8e088b8f7f4f/tool/37d05c72-c02a-426c-9ac9-83e7a9bfab85/discussionForum/message/dfAllMessages|journal=Personality and Social Psychology Review|volume=10|issue=3|pages=252–264|via=Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc|doi=10.1207/s15327957pspr1003_4|pmid=16859440|s2cid=18142674|access-date=2019-06-22|archive-date=2020-09-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200910172536/https://shibboleth.nyu.edu/idp/profile/SAML2/Unsolicited/SSO?execution=e1s1|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Spens|first=Christiana|date=2014-09-01|title=The Theatre of Cruelty: Dehumanization, Objectification & Abu Ghraib|journal=Contemporary Voices: St Andrews Journal of International Relations|language=en|volume=5|issue=3|doi=10.15664/jtr.946|issn=2516-3159|doi-access=free}}</ref> ==Race== Dehumanization can be used against a [[race (sociology)|racial group]] or [[ethnicity]], by comparing them to animals or [[monster]]s. In this way it is easier to abuse people of another group. For example, [[black people]] have been dehumanized by [[racist]] images comparing them to [[ape]]s. Researchers say that this dehumanization continues to exist today: it can affect the punishment for a crime.<ref>{{cite web|title=Discrimination against blacks linked to dehumanization, study finds|date=2008-02-07|url=https://news.stanford.edu/pr/2008/pr-eber-021308.html|access-date=2021-07-17|archive-date=2022-02-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220217193632/https://news.stanford.edu/pr/2008/pr-eber-021308.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> ===Africans=== Members of some ethnic groups, such as Ota Benga, an African Mbuti man, were held in [[Human zoo|human zoos]]. They were sh