United States politicians are no strangers to using unkind language against their opponents. It's a trend that dates back to at least 1800 when, during the presidential campaign, Thomas Jefferson ...

As a college professor who has taught about race, ethnicity, immigration and media for the past six years, and as a multiracial Black and Latina parent, I know the mass media is a powerful force ...

President Trump has warned that immigrants will “pour in and infest our country.” He said that they are coming from “sh*thole countries.” And he has said of immigrants “these aren’t people. They are ...

It is not news anymore that the United States is deeply polarized along partisan lines. In recent decades, ours has become a body politic consumed by fear and loathing, willing to attribute nefarious ...

Twitter today announced it’d be altering its hateful conduct policies to prohibit “dehumanizing speech.” By doing so, it intends to patch a hole in its rules against hate speech to account for tweets ...

Far-left woke mobs ravaging the country. Hordes of illegal immigrants invading the southern border. Gender ideology warping young minds in schools. Sinister globalists plotting in the shadows. These ...

Call it the Alex Jones effect. Twitter announced on Tuesday that it will update its rules to prohibit "dehumanizing language" on the platform. While it is still finalizing what this policy will look ...

Anyone who studies mass violence will sooner or later be confronted with the phenomenon of dehumanization. People use the word “dehumanization” in a bewilderingly wide variety of ways, but I use it to ...

Listen to President Donald Trump long enough, and you’re likely to hear his xenophobic views about immigrants. In his speeches, Trump regularly states or implies that undocumented migrants and ...

Twitter on Tuesday announced a new policy addressing “dehumanizing speech,” which will take effect later this year, and for the first time the public will be able to formally provide the company with ...

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