Subhumanism

A critical analysis of social behavior proposes that the contempt for immigrants, refugees, or asylum seekers around the world is explicitly or implicitly powered by an ontology of the subhuman, a term that was used in early 20th century American race and eugenic theory, as well as in fascist Germany, to describe and justify the mistreatment of minorities or perceived enemies. “Migrants” are not afforded the same rights and respect as other people, because they are not conceived as real humans, and their subhuman status allows them to be understood as criminals, degenerates, and even parasites, which are infesting the orderly body of the nation.Subhumanism: The re‐emergence of an affective‐symbolic ontology in the migration debate and beyond - Teo - 2020 - Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour - Wiley Online Library
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That human beings are the accidental result of billions of years of random cosmic and planetary accidents, followed by millions of years of undirected genetic mutations; that our brains are organic computers whose unreliable constructs result from deterministic electronic events on the sub-molecular level; that our altruistic instincts are driven by DNA’s drive to replicate itself; that the most successful human being in history must have been Genghis Khan, who left behind several million direct descendents; that the biggest failure had to be Jesus Christ, who lived without sex or money, and died without having children.Try holding both these thoughts in your head at the same time, and you’ll have to keep them in tightly sealed containers, so they don’t spill together and annihilate themselves, like matter and anti-matter in a particle accelerator. To ease the strain and give the world a little glimmer of numinous “meaning,” you’ll meditate sometimes, or read mystical literature exclusively (and this is key) of religions about whose doctrines you are blissfully ignorant (hence Rumi, the Kabbala, or the Tibetan Book of the Dead). You’ll wince when Evangelicals say that Jesus got them their mobile homes, and nod benignly when Oprah says that the “universe” wanted her to write her latest book. You’ll give money to Planned Parenthood, and dog shelters. You’ll think like Darwin, but emote like Rousseau. Of course, when the chips are down, what you really think life means will win out in the end. When Annie Hall is over, and Mia Farrow is shouting at you, “You’re not supposed to BLEEP the kids,” you’ll shrug and say, “Why not? We’re consenting adults.”The Inherent Instability of Subhumanism Makes It That Much More Dangerous (aleteia.org; Web Archive.)
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Misbehavior; Wickedness; Maltreatment; Political maltreatment; State-executed maltreatment
Humanism; Neo-humanism; Infra-humanism; Xeno-humanism; Huemanism; Non-humanism; Anti-humanism; Mystical humanism; Christian humanism
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