What's worse than brutality that dehumanizes women? Tolerance and indifference towards it.
Any attempt to treat people as semihumans only dehumanizes them.
Extreme nationalism objectifies and dehumanizes those from other countries.
Dehumanization, although a concrete historical fact, is not a given destiny but the result of an unjust order that engenders violence in the oppressors, which in turn dehumanizes the oppressed
When we think of war, the tendency is to picture young soldiers only in their military roles. To a large extent this dehumanizes the soldiers and makes it easier for society to commit them to combat.