Resumen de When the face doesn't fit
Adolf Hitler did it when he referred to German Jews as viruses, parasites and rats. In Rwanda, Hutu extremists did it to the Tutsis, calling them cockroaches before killing half a million of them in the bloody genocide of 1994. Dehumanization has long been thought of as a precursor to extreme acts of violence, but it is alarmingly common, as anyone who follows the news will be aware. To take just two recent, high-profile examples, Italy's first black cabinet minister, Cecile Kyenge, was compared to an orang-utan by a fellow politician, and in France a candidate for the National Front party likened the black justice minister, Christiane Taubira, to a monkey. Here, Spinney wonders why people have a tendency to see outsiders as less human than themselves.
