David Livingstone Smith featured on media outlets across the country discussing dehumanization
David Livingstone Smith, Ph.D., professor of philosophy, was recently featured in several media outlets across the country speaking about President Donald Trump and dehumanization.
Most recently, Smith was interviewed on Washington, D.C. radio station and by in Illinois.
Smith was also quoted in a article linking language used by President Donald Trump to a manifesto written by the man accused in a mass shooting in El Paso, Texas.
The 21-year-old suspect is accused of opening fire in a Walmart in El Paso, killing 20 people and injuring dozens more after writing a manifesto railing against immigration.
In the article Smith said Trump had emboldened Americans whose views were seen as unacceptable in everyday society not long ago.
鈥淭his has always been part of American life,鈥 Smith told the New York Times. 鈥淏ut Trump has given people permission to say what they think. And that鈥檚 crack cocaine. That鈥檚 powerful. When someone allows you to be authentic, that鈥檚 a very, very potent thing. People have come out of the shadows.鈥
Smith was also interviewed about the impact of hate speech for a live and on demand video news network.
Smith is the author of the award-winning book Less Than Human: Why We Demean, Enslave, and Exterminate Others. The book explores how some people depict groups of others as less than human.
He is currently working on two more books on the subject of dehumanization鈥攐ne to be published by Harvard University Press and the other by Oxford University Press. His paper "Manufacturing monsters: dehumanization and public policy" appeared in The Palgrave Companion to Philosophy and Public Policy.
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