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5 days ago · Dehumanization is a critical aspect of using hate to control people. By portraying certain groups as less than human, it becomes easier to justify discriminatory policies and violent actions against them. This psychological tactic reduces empathy and fosters an environment where oppression and violence are tolerated, or even endorsed. 6.
3 days ago · t. e. Nonviolence is the personal practice of not causing harm to others under any condition. It may come from the belief that hurting people, animals and/or the environment is unnecessary to achieve an outcome and it may refer to a general philosophy of abstention from violence. It may be based on moral, religious or spiritual principles, or ...
5 days ago · “Oppression can manifest and cause a person’s possessions to chronically break down, despite reasonable efforts to keep them in good order.” (Fraune) Other effects that exorcists have noted are marital discord, illness with no natural explanation, the breaking up of friendships, etc, with the purpose of leaving the person isolated.
4 days ago · abolitionism, (c. 1783–1888), in western Europe and the Americas, the movement chiefly responsible for creating the emotional climate necessary for ending the transatlantic slave trade and chattel slavery. The intensification of slavery as a system, which followed Portuguese trafficking of enslaved Africans beginning in the 15th century, was ...
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3 days ago · Slavery is the ownership of a person as property, especially in regards to their labour. [1] Slavery typically involves compulsory work, with the slave's location of work and residence dictated by the party that holds them in bondage. Enslavement is the placement of a person into slavery, and the person is called a slave or an enslaved person ...
3 days ago · Essentially, Congress, controlled by a Republican majority, used its legislative powers and control over the federal purse strings in an attempt to impose answers to the “Big Questions of Reconstruction” listed above. The recalcitrance of white Southerners opened Republicans to extending full citizenship to the formerly enslaved.
3 days ago · Marxism is a political philosophy and method of socioeconomic analysis. It uses a materialist interpretation of historical development, better known as "historical materialism", to understand class relations and social conflict. It also uses a dialectical perspective to view social transformation.
