More on the aggression of motorists towards anything that is not a machine powered by fossil fuel:
"Australia needs separate infrastructure for bicycle riding, especially if we want more people to take up this active, carbon-neutral form of transport. The lesson is clear: we need to prioritise people over cars."
https://theconversation.com/safety-vests-and-helmets-make-cyclists-look-less-human-to-other-road-users-207413

The above article is by the same authors mentioned in my previous post:
'Denying humanness to others has a long history...'
https://mastodon.au/@Bellingen/110483847272470710

#dehumanisation #motorists #violence #cyclists #wildlife #roadkill #pedestrians #cars #fossilfuel #mobility #mindsets #transition What #climatechange ?

Denying humanness to others
has a long history...

Recent research from Australia has found that many people consider cyclists to be less than fully #human.

"We found images of #cyclists wearing #helmets or #safety vests to have a higher probability of being selected as less human compared to images of cyclists wearing no safety equipment. The results have implications for research on cyclists."

"Dehumanisation has been found to be predictive of hostile and aggressive behaviour, our finding highlights a potential conflict around the perception and utility of safety gear such as high visibility vests; although designed for safety, they may inadvertently increase levels of hostility and #aggression toward this group of vulnerable road users."

"Research indicates that low status groups are dehumanised – viewed as less civilised and evolved than groups afforded a higher #status."

I often wonder if the SUVs with black tinted windows contain any humans?

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1369847823001018
#Cycling #SafetyAttire #SustainableMobility #CarbonNeutral #ActiveTransportation #Climate #Dehumanisation #Subhuman #Essentialism #Cars #FossilFuel #Motorists #Roadtrauma #Roadkill #OutGroup #Civilisation

Highlights

• Dehumanisation facilitates acts of aggression and violence.

• Bidirectional, self-reflexive relationship between dehumanisation.

• Language of elites can normalise practices otherwise repugnant in a democracy.

• Both collective silence and language can shroud violent and repugnant acts.

• Dehumanising language may excuse politically-related violence.

#torture #coercion #dehumanisation #rhetoric #normalisation

Matthew’s post highlights the so-called ‘autism industry’, which is big business in the US in particular

It is firmly centred on commodifying our needs (or rather what the industry can tout to non-autistics as being good for us, including the likes of ABA)

#AutismIndustry #SayNoToABA #BanABA #dehumanisation #dehumanization #ActuallyAutistic

https://mastodon.art/@manzanares/110214717940962712

Al Aqsa: Israeli attacks reinforce dehumanisation of Palestinians
Hash tag list:
#AlAqsaMosque
#Israel
#Palestians
#Dehumanisation
#Ramadan
#HumanRights
#BBC
#Itikaf
#NewYorkTimes
#Apartheid
#Gaza
https://www.thecanary.co/trending/2023/04/06/israeli-attacks-on-al-aqsa-reinforce-the-dehumanisation-of-palestinians-living-under-occupation/

I've now read to page 332 of The Book of Trespass by Nick Hayes and realised there's a 100% chance this was written by a public school "educated" person so I googled and, yes, he's "public school and Cambridge".

On page 332 Hayes berates the poors for "dehumanising" the rich, without giving any relevant examples, and in the same paragraph dehumanises the non-rich as "robotic" in his characterisation of plans for fair taxation as "tired, robotic resentment". Then in the next paragraph he dehumanises the culture of English poors as a "stagnant pool of loosely defined resentment" to erase our humanity and intellectual culture, as he has done throughout the book to the working classes, GRT people, Black people, women, and everyone else who dares to deviate from the permitted straight and narrow path of Posh White Men Like Nick Hayes.

Hayes also claims that what he acknowledges as a humorous slogan, "Eat the Rich", is an unfair "focus on the character of the rich"... I mean, yes, if the characteristic is "rich" because that's the point, lmao. How else can we focus on the fact that extremely "rich" people shouldn't exist in a fair society without describing the fact of their economic privilege? Another example of Hayes trying to ban useful words and terms, exactly as he tried to erase "patriarchy" and "racism" earlier in the book (antizygonist racism against GRT people first, which he claimed is about "mobility" not racialisation/ethnicity, and then anti-Black racism, which he claimed is about the economics of enslavement - erm, yes, that incentivised codifying anti-Blackness but anti-Blackness already existed in medieval European culture and before, just read the literature). I don't want, for example, Richard Drax taxed fairly because he's an unpleasant character, I want him taxed because it's fair and reasonable to tax the rich. (And a solution to overconfidently ignorant ex-public school boys is to tax public schools as businesses and tax businesses fairly.)

This book is poor-hating classist propaganda which erases whole groups of disprivileged and oppressed people. Hayes has been employed as a "communications" professional and presumably knows what he's doing when he dehumanises working class people as "robotic" "stagnant pools", while he reaps rewards from the interests he's serving: bestselling book and media jobs (and probably an Order of the British Empire if he stays on this career path).

P.S. For some reason these 386 pages of propaganda notably fail to record successful challenges to the status quo... almost as if the author doesn't want you to know change is real and we can make it ourselves together.

#trespass #TheBookOfTrespass #RightToRoam #reading #books #WorkingClassHistory #SocialHistory #UK #classism #ClassWar #EatTheRich #taxation #dehumanisation