‘Because it's easier to kill that way’: Dehumanizing epithets, militarized subjectivity, and American necropolitics

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Dehumanizing: a war tactic to reduce the enemies to a description. After WW2 soldiers were reluctant to kill and thus, the new strategy was to dehumanize the others so that soldiers wouldn't feel empathy towards the enemies. This is the result...https:…

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