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What happens to hate when the target of the hate is humanized?
Since the events of September 11th, who have been humanized and who have been dehumanized by the media portrayal of the government?
How do these portrayals influence your opinions about appropriate responses?
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When hate is humanizewd it is taked to a whole new level. People can be hurt and someone ends up on the down end. Since september 11 the islraelize have been humanized and the Palestinians have been dehumanized.
The media and the government humanized the israelize by giving them land and publishing good things about them. The palestinians have been dehuamized by the government because the government put the palestinians in refugee camps. It makes me think that the israelize didn't do anything bad by putting the palestinians in the camps.
Hate can simply extinguish when the target appears to have a just cause and the "antagonizer" and "protagonist" both appear to be just following what they were told and taught to do and not just doing it because of full choice.
Since September 11th, Al-Qaeda and the Taliban have both been dehumanized because of their extreme religious and political views. Many governmental institutions have been humanized by the media, especially the army, to encourage.
These portrayals make me think that the Taliban and Al-Qaeda are evil and are trying to destroy our lives when they are actually just following their religions, just going about it in an extreme fashion. The US Army also looks very attractive and not like it would be brutal with the way that it is represented.
How do these portrayals influence your opinions about appropriate responses?
Ryan, Explain & Justify your Thoughts! Why? According to your thought, why is it okay for the Israelis to place the Palestinians in camps & remove them from their land/homes? Why should anyone have to live as a refugee in their own country? You have good starting arguments to voice your thoughts, but EXPAND! Think of this beyond Israel-Palestine when thinking of September 11th as neither Israel/Palestine had anything to do with the September 11th attacks, try to think outside of this issue and draw comparisons.
DOES THE MEDIA AFFECT PEOPLE'S CURRENT PERCEPTIONS OF THE WAR IN IRAQ/THE WAR ON TERRORISM, HOW?
I think that the media largely effects what people think about the war in iraque and terriorism because IT IS THE ONLY WAY WE HEAR ABOUT IT. It's not like I take a plane over there every time I want to find out what is really going on. Instead I watch the news or read the paper or listen to the radio. All of those are forms of the media, and the media shapes all of our opinions because it is often the only window we have to the outside world.
I think that whem hate is humanized, things can get ugly. When a face is put to hate, you now have someone or a group to target. People get hurt...killed! Look at the Isralie Palestine conflict. They don't like eachother, and just think of some of the things they do to eachother. It is so sad! When hate is humanized, people create sterio types and make generalizations. They think that all the people in that group are bad, and they decide to terrorize them all.
I think that this leads to dehumanization. Once hate is humanized, they have something to dehumanize. Since the attack of September 11th I think that all people of the middle east have been dehumanized. I think it is because we are still learning alot about their culture and beliefs. People are terrified of people just because they are muslum or are from the middle east. I think we judge them alot and don't even realize it.
I agree with sam that the military, army, and navy has been humanized. Also... I think that "white" people in general have been humanized. They are always the "good guys" and so we don't look at some of the bad things that they do.
Media greatly affects how we think about any war. I agree with amy, but the only other way to hear about it is if a soldier send you a letter. That doesn't happen often, and only if they want to talk about the war.
I dissagree with sam when he says hate can extinguish. Some times that hate has passed through generations and can't go out like that. Even if the cause is just, not everyone thinks about it that way. What do you think the british thought when the americans tried to break away, it was a just cause for us.
When the target of hate is humanized, then the hate itself becomes more obvious. The media in a war is often the only way we have information, unless like carrie said someone sends you a letter, and those letters may be intercepted. But Media is also sometimes kept to show only what the government wants us to see in the war. Sometimes even if the group that is being humanized or dehumanized is wanting to be seen and heard by the public, the public doesnt want to hear them because the media is portraying the acts wrongly.
When the target of hate is humanized, we can relate to what is happening and understand more of what were are doing to the ones who recive the hate. but in the end hate will be retargeted and someone will end up dehumanized. Since September 11th white people definately have more of a humanized view and Middle Eastern people are definately dehumanized. I really agree with how Sam put it. The Irag terrorist (more or less extremists) are really just following what their religons tells them to an extrem level. But the media potrays them as bad, evil people.
Well first i think when your hate is humanized you should make sure and check that you are growing a tall thin mustache and growing a swastika on you back. Either that or that your not wearing a white hooded robe. I think that Americans have been humanized after 9/11 and the radical muslums have been dehumanized. I always have to question the authors point of view about the subject when I read about the war.
I agree with Beth, that the target of dehumanization is just going to come around.
When hate becomes humanized, you see who to target. When the war happened, I didn't really understand what was going on. Now you see Bin Laden everywhere, and that is the main guy. He is your target. When Sept. 11 happened, all of America was humanized, and the middle-eastern countries were dehumanized. (and still are!) The media has (in a way) dehumanized our government because it questions our security and why it let 9/11 happen. When I see all of the bad guys on the news, i really want them caught. Then i think "are they really as bad as the media seems to make them?" The media has such an influence on out lives, i wonder how much is really the truth sometimes.
When hate is "huminized" people have somewhere to act on their hate. They can show who they hate to the world, by killing and tormenting their targets. After the Sept 11th attacks the prejudce of musliums and people from the middle east rose, and they acted agianst it, dehuminizing our targets. We simply dont know enough about musliums culture to jude them and group them all together as terrorists.
The media can either feed this hate or extinguish it. They can protray the Iraqis as hating killing people, or just citizens caught up in the war. We can't have any other way of knowing.
Well said Amy, Well said.
I don't mean to be rude, but half of you don't know what "humanized" or "humanization" means. It means to, according to Merriam Webster's Online Dictionary,:
1 a: to represent as human : attribute human qualities to
b: to adapt to human nature or use
2: to make humane
Most of you are thinking that humanizing is to increase hate of something like that. It really is to just understand or recognize that they may have a just cause, in their opinions, too.
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