Persuasive Essay On Dehumanizing One Another

Why do we dehumanize one another when we know that we should treat one another with respect?

We dehumanize one another because it makes ourselves feel better. Although we know that we should treat one another with respect, we try to get ahead of the game by making fun of others to try and boost confidence. In a perfect society where people treated one another with respect, everyone would have the same amount of confidence because no one would feel better than anyone else. Because people are greedy and want to be better that everyone else, they result to putting others down to bring themselves up. Almost everyone is guilty of this because it has become a social norm to cut at one another until you feel superior. Dehumanizing others plays a big part in racism because it is one race thinking they are superior to another race. Racial slurs are a common action in the

Whenever I go out with my friends to get food and I don’t have any money, they say things like, “Why don’t you have money? I thought you were rich? Aren’t you from Marin?” Although it is nice to be looked at as a bazillionaire, I feels misunderstood. The fact that I play lacrosse does not help the stereotype of “rich Marin kid.” I wouldn’t describe myself as a laxbro, mostly because I don’t walk around thinking I’m better than everyone else because of my “sick flow.” Another stereotype that comes with being from Marin is being conservative. I remember the day after Trump got elected, a group of girls walked up to me and asked be if my parents had voted for Trump. I was mostly hurt when one of the girls in the back say, “He definitely did,” in a disgusted tone. I realized that people saw me as a privileged, bigoted, white male, just because I lived in Marin and was