Bullies Humiliate : humiliation leads to the need for memorials to the dead of atrocity

"The key concept for humiliation is rejection from the human commonwealth. But such rejection is not based on a belief or attitude that the rejected person is merely an object or an animal. The rejection consists of behaving as if the person were an object or animal."

Avishai Margalit

The decent society. 1966

from

Humiliation, Degradation, Dehumanization,

P. Kaufmann, et al. (eds.)

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