People in Power Dehumanize their Victims

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South African comedian and television host Trevor Noah comments on the dehumanization of Palestinian people in media coverage. He mocks how killing masses is referred to as collateral damage instead of counting them as humans. #Israel #Palestine #GazaGenocide #UnitedStates #MiddleEast  https://www.instagram.com/hoopoeplatform/ https://www.tiktok.com/@hoopoeplatform1 https://www.facebook.com/Hoopoeplatform/ https://t.me/Hoopoeplatform

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00:00You now see with a real clear lens how the media tells the stories about what's happening

00:09in the Middle East.

00:10They will say, you know, a family killed in Tel Aviv, you know, they'll make it human

00:17and on the other side, they'll go 60 Palestinians, but Palestinians is not a thing.

00:22When you think of it, if you take that word, you should remove it and just write humans,

00:25children, humans, children.

00:27I don't think anyone, to borrow your words from the book, would be able to grapple with

00:31that constant toll and pain because we'd be like, whoa, how many humans and how many children

00:37and how many people?

00:38And I think that's actually what it is, is throughout history, even if we zoom out from

00:42the conflict in the Middle East, what we've been very good at doing as a species, you

00:46know, through a few people who have assumed power is they've managed to dehumanize the

00:52people that it's happening to so that we don't have to question our humanity.

00:56So when the U.S. drones a part of the Middle East where it's a wedding or, no, no, it's

01:00collateral damage, insurgents.

01:03We got the, but collateral damage is not the people.

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