What Is The Myth of Barter?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JB9BA9V5aI
“Since the dawn of civilization, humans would trade shoes for shirts and spears for food. And then money was created because that was too complicated.”
Turns out this is the base lie that keeps us in chains. Here’s how it really went…
#Barter #Myth #Lies #Control #Dehumanization #AdamSmith #Marx #DavidGraeber #GiftEconomy #SocialSolidarity
The evolution of orcs from the dark, corpse-like entities in *Beowulf* to the modern iterations we see in games is a fascinating journey through myth and interpretation. They embody our fears and fantasies, questioning the nature of evil and identity. As we explore their stories, we grapple with deeper themes of #dehumanization and #representation. Were they ever just monsters, or are they reflecting parts of ourselves? More insights here: https://rpgstorytellers.com/article/shadows-of-the-green-tide-the-rise-ruin-and-redemption-of-orcses #fantasy #mythology
But there’s an antidote to us-them messages of hate, fear and exclusion that claim that only a tiny minority of people are truly human. That antidote is to realize that by recognizing the humanity of others we don’t disavow our own humanity: We demonstrate it. It behooves us to demand that all people receive equal protection under the law, and to call out monstrifying narratives that, in the end, dehumanize us all.«
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-06-15/immigration-policy-human-rights-monsters
#LosAngeles #Racism #DeHumanization
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#israel #palestine : #war / #gaza / #hungercrisis / #aiddistribution / #dehumanization / #internationallaw / #impunity
(Preemptive selfdefence, maybe? - Sorry for my cyniscism)
„Eyewitnesses interviewed by Reuters said Israeli tanks had fired at least two shells at a crowd of thousands, who had gathered on the main eastern road through Khan Younis in the hope of getting food from aid trucks that use the route.“
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/israel-gaza-aid-trucks-1.7563117
Israeli Activist Makes Shocking Statement: What Americans Must Learn From It --- Parkrose Permaculture
Dehumanizing propaganda polarizes — it radicalizes susceptible people, while others resist it. The real danger isn’t the majority falling for it, but a small, radicalized group becoming increasingly violent and proactive. Lesson: Resist fear-based narratives before they escalate.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wV782j9mq2k
#Propaganda #Radicalization #Dehumanization #Gaza #Genocide #israel #hate #cogitivesec
In the Black Mirror episode "Men Against Fire," soldiers are manipulated by neural implants into seeing their targets as monstrous “roaches.” It’s a chilling metaphor for how dehumanization makes violence easier to justify—how perception can be engineered to suppress empathy.
We might not have implants in our heads, but we're still constantly fed narratives—through news media, films, and even video games like Call of Duty—that shape how we see entire groups of people. Often, they’re cast as the villain, the threat, the other.
One group that’s been persistently portrayed this way is Muslims. From headlines that link Islam to terrorism to entertainment that uses Muslim characters as stock villains, these patterns have created a distorted image. Over time, it becomes easy to forget that we're talking about real people—people with families, histories, hopes, and beliefs as varied as anyone else’s.
Just like the soldiers in Men Against Fire, many of us are trained—subtly or overtly—to look past someone’s humanity. And that’s dangerous. Because once we stop seeing people as fully human, anything can be justified.
The way forward isn’t through more fear, but through understanding. We need to question the stories we’re told, listen more deeply, and seek out voices that aren’t always handed a microphone. Only then can we begin to replace suspicion with empathy—and division with something more human.
#Islamophobia #MediaPropaganda #Dehumanization #BlackMirror #MenAgainstFire #Mastodon #MuslimVoices #StopTheHate #Fediverse #MuslimVerse #Terrorism
Do not dehumanize people.
https://ko-fi.com/s/7212ddcf87
#dehumanization #genocide #cruelty #aiart #midjourneyai doing?
Discrimination, and all other forms of #dehumanization, make us experience and internalize #shame —painful, humiliating shame, which we try to hide and suppress so that we can experience #belonging.
And when we aren't capable of sitting with the massive discomfort of shame—turning a light on the parts of ourselves that evolved to be invisible—we cannot grow, apologize, take #accountability, or acknowledge how we contribute to #systemicharm.
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📢 Message de Standing-together (Israël) diffusé sur #bluesky le (2025-05-20)
- https://bsky.app/profile/standing-together.bsky.social/post/3lpm32wo6wc2z
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Ces photos sont de notre veillée silencieuse d'hier à Jaffa, l'une des dizaines que nous avons organisées à travers le pays.
Ces veillées servent à se souvenir des enfants tués à Gaza depuis le début de ce cauchemar, et à protester contre la guerre d'anéantissement menée par notre gouvernement.
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Alors que la violence continue, la machine de guerre tourne à plein régime pour normaliser la mort et la destruction de masse.
Compter les morts devient presque impossible.
La différence de quelques centaines, voire de quelques milliers, commence à sembler minime, même si chacune de ces vies représentait un monde entier.
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Au milieu de cet assaut incessant contre l'humanité, nous devons résister à la déshumanisation et à la normalisation.
Nous devons insister pour témoigner de l'horreur et choisir de ne pas sombrer dans le désespoir, mais de nous organiser.
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Pour trouver de la force les uns dans les autres et dans notre engagement commun à construire un avenir dans ce pays où chacun est véritablement en sécurité et libre.
Un avenir où la vie d'un enfant palestinien et la vie d'un enfant israélien sont également protégées et valorisées.
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# English version
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These pictures are from our silent vigil yesterday in Jaffa, one of dozens that we have held across the country.
These vigils serve to remember the children who have been killed in Gaza since this nightmare began, and to protest against our government’s war of annihilation.
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As the violence continues, the war machine works overtime to normalize mass death and destruction. Counting the dead becomes nearly impossible. The difference of a few hundred or even a few thousand starts to feel small, even though each of those lives was an entire world.
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Amid this relentless assault on humanity, we must resist dehumanization and normalization. We must insist on bearing witness to the horror and choose not to sink into despair, but to organize
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To find strength in one another and in our shared commitment to building a future in this land where everyone is truly safe and free.
A future where the life of a Palestinian child and the life of an Israeli child are equally protected and valued
#gaza #StandingTogether #dehumanization #déshumanisation #StopWar
Africa: To Overcome Fear and Hatred We Must Undo the Dehumanisation Rooted in Dogma: [Daily Maverick] The algorithms that help us crunch data so easily also have a tendency of telling us what we want to hear - and showing us what we want to read. It's a comfortable echo chamber that blinds us to the reality in front of our unseeing eyes. http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TKm2tl #Africa #Dehumanization #FearAndHatred #EchoChamber #DigitalBias
Dehumanizing the outsider: Evgenia Kara-Murza on political prisoners: "There is this demonstrative cruelty with regard to these people"
#TheContrarian #Russia #politicalprisoners #asylum #trump #authoritarianism #Dehumanization #bukele #RussiaUkraineWar
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/dehumanizing-the-outsider-evgenia
Refs:
Suarez, C. (2018). The Power Manual. New Society Publishers.
She draws here also on the work of Audre Lorde, Michel Foucault, Roland Barthes, and others.
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#Oppression
#PowerDynamics
#Exploitation
#Dehumanization
#Marginalized
#Equity
How oppression comes about through people's micro-interactions. 🤷♀️
Seven patterns of dominance:
👑 1. Tolerance.
Allowing small doses of difference (especially those that are of benefit to my own or my company/organization's agenda).
But never enough to cause change to the power relationship.
Diversity, but not equity!
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(A thread 🧵 )
#Oppression #PowerDynamics #Exploitation #Dehumanization #Marginalized #Equity
The Disappeared: Deported. Disappeared. Dehumanized.
#TheContrarian #disappeared #deportation #Dehumanization #ICE #trump
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/the-disappeared?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
..point being its an #unjust and #unfair systemic #dehumanization to measure someone's capacity for life on how well they button a shirt or tie a shoe, or yes, even speak your language your way!
if EVERY1 was measured this way....
THERE WOULD BE #NOCEO's
#Trump posted a photo of himself holding up a picture claiming to show #KilmarAbregoGarcia’s tattoos that prove he’s MS-13.
The picture he’s holding has obviously been digitally altered to add the characters MS-13.
The source of this BS is a neo-Nazi X user who claims the tattoos are code for “MS-13.”
This is why you try people in court of #law & not on social media.
#FactCheck #TrumpLies #gaslighting #propaganda #dehumanization #immigration #HumanRights #CivilRights #DueProcess
"In a stark recasting of Orwell’s original insight, in 2024 it was not Trump and his MAGA allies who cloaked their intentions in euphemism and ambiguity. Instead, it was mainstream media, pollsters, and political consultants who retreated into vagueness—minimizing or outright ignoring Trump's explicit threats in an effort to avoid accusations of bias, partisanship, or alarmism."
#Trump #Republicans #ICE #immigrants #cruelty #Nazis #dehumanization #lies #fascism #media
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"In the shadow of mid-20th-century atrocities, George Orwell warned us in his indispensable essay, 'Politics and the English Language,' that political speech often serves primarily to defend the indefensible through 'euphemism, question-begging, and sheer cloudy vagueness.' Today, this warning rings truer than ever.
~ Michael Podhorzer
#Trump #Republicans #ICE #immigrants #cruelty #Nazis #dehumanization #lies #fascism #media
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"The reason I think we're at the numbers we're at is because this movement has been building a very long time. And one of the things that we need to do when we reclaim America and an America for everybody is to push these people back under the rock they came from. Because that's really where this kind of mentality should be in a healthy society. They'll always be there, but they shouldn't be running everything."
#Trump #Republicans #ICE #immigrants #cruelty #Nazis #dehumanization #racism
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