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Ep. 62- Dehumanization and Genocide with David Livingstone Smith - The Holocaust History Podcast

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David Livingstone Smith @davidlsmith.bsky.social · 9d

My interview on the Holocaust and History podcast. This is a wonderful podcast. Each episode is an interview with a scholar who works on the Holocaust or topics adjacent to it. thhp.buzzsprout.com/2291653/epis...

We often hear the term “dehumanization” used in a variety of contexts. For example, dehumanization a set of beliefs, or a set of behaviors?  Is it metaphorical or do people actually believe their...

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David Livingstone Smith @davidlsmith.bsky.social · 16d

Reposting this in light of current events. davidlivingstonesmith.substack.com/p/the-assasi...

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David Livingstone Smith @davidlsmith.bsky.social · 16d

Conversation with George Makari on "Humanity on the Line: Resisting Dehumanization, Erasure, and Atrocity Amidst Divides" at the MLK Jr branch of the Cleveland Public Library, an event for the 90th anniversary of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards.

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David Livingstone Smith @davidlsmith.bsky.social · 22d

gofund.me/fd98ff51

Fifteen years ago, I received a letter from prisoner named James Draper,… David Livingstone Smith needs your support for Support James Draper's New Beginning

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David Livingstone Smith @davidlsmith.bsky.social · 22d

In 1938, a Jewish teenager assassinated Ernst vom Rath, a German diplomat in Paris. This triggered a series of events leading to Kristallnacht and the incarceration of 26k Jewish men in concentration camps. Today we are at a similar tipping point. davidlivingstonesmith.substack.com/p/the-assasi...

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David Livingstone Smith @davidlsmith.bsky.social · 23d

Thanks!

David Livingstone Smith @davidlsmith.bsky.social · 24d

I have a very ominous feeling. We may be at a turning point. davidlivingstonesmith.substack.com/p/the-assasi...

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David Livingstone Smith @davidlsmith.bsky.social · 24d

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David Livingstone Smith @davidlsmith.bsky.social · 28d

That and the Spanish flu

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David Livingstone Smith @davidlsmith.bsky.social · Sep 7

48. David Livingstone Smith on the Psychology of Dehumanization - Roots, Rhetoric, Myths and How to Resist It - Humanism Now | Secular Ethics, Curiosity and Compassionate Change

“The arc of history bends towards justice only if you keep pushing it in that direction.”David Livingstone-Smith, Ph.D.,  award-winning author, Professor of Philosophy at the University of New En...

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David Livingstone Smith @davidlsmith.bsky.social · Aug 27

2/2 I wish I had been able to raise more. So, if you're on the fence, or have been meaning to donate but haven't got around to it, here's your chance. The GoFundMe link is gofund.me/3507097f

Donate to Support James Draper's New Beginning, organized by David Livingstone Smith

Fifteen years ago, I received a letter from prisoner named James Draper,… David Livingstone Smith needs your support for Support James Draper's New Beginning

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David Livingstone Smith @davidlsmith.bsky.social · Aug 27

1/2 GREAT NEWS! My student/mentee James is being released from prison TOMORROW after more than 40 years behind bars. Thanks to your generosity, he will have nearly $1700 to help start him off on the right foot.

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David Livingstone Smith @davidlsmith.bsky.social · Aug 27

Unnatural Kinds

The folk-metaphysics of dehumanization

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David Livingstone Smith @davidlsmith.bsky.social · Aug 23

All men, some men, most men?

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David Livingstone Smith @davidlsmith.bsky.social · Aug 23

Please consider donating to this immensely worthy cause. No amount is too small. Every dollar raised will go towards making the remainder of this remarkable man's life a fulfilling one.
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Fifteen years ago, I received a letter from prisoner named James Draper,… David Livingstone Smith needs your support for Support James Draper's New Beginning

Donate to Support James Draper's New Beginning, organized by David Livingstone Smith

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David Livingstone Smith @davidlsmith.bsky.social · Aug 23

Functionally illiterate after graduating from high school, James developed a passionate interest in science and philosophy while in prison. His aim now is, as he puts it, to "bring philosophy to the streets."

Fifteen years ago, I received a letter from prisoner named James Draper,… David Livingstone Smith needs your support for Support James Draper's New Beginning

Donate to Support James Draper's New Beginning, organized by David Livingstone Smith

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David Livingstone Smith @davidlsmith.bsky.social · Aug 23

I am reaching out to you again to invite you to contribute to my fundraiser for James Draper. James has been incarcerated in California for more than forty years, and is now due to be released. He has been my long-distance student for the past fifteen years.

Fifteen years ago, I received a letter from prisoner named James Draper,… David Livingstone Smith needs your support for Support James Draper's New Beginning

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David Livingstone Smith @davidlsmith.bsky.social · Aug 23

How Therapy Made Me Politically Aware

But probably not in the way that you think

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David Livingstone Smith @davidlsmith.bsky.social · Aug 22

Same in my school.