Discrimination, Dehumanization, and Terrorism: They’re Not Even People

[DISCLAIMER]

When I was a child, my white mom told me that because I have a black dad, some people may treat me discriminatorily. For context, the American Psychological Association (APA) thusly defines discrimination:

[T]he unjust and differential treatment of the members of different age, gender, racial, ethnic, religious, national, ability identity, sexual orientation, socioeconomic, and other groups at the individual level (e.g., behavioral manifestation of prejudice involving negative, hostile, and injurious treatment of the members of targeted groups) and the institutional/structural level (e.g., operating procedures, laws, and policies) that favor certain groups over others and has the effect of restricting opportunities for other groups.

Discrimination is usually the behavioral manifestation of prejudice and therefore involves negative, hostile, and injurious treatment of the members of rejected groups. By contrast, reverse discrimination is the favorable treatment of the oppressed group rather than the typically favored group.

“Racist whites used to say that black had tails,” my mom told me, “because whites believed they were superior and that blacks were inferior.” According to one source, “A human tail is a rare congenital anomaly which mostly presents immediately after birth or in early childhood.”

Genetic anomalies aside, my mom explained that from the period of slavery in the United States (U.S.), to include a number of years before the formation of this nation, and through the Jim Crow era, black people in the U.S. were thought of and treated like animals in many instances.

Thus, black people were said to have experienced dehumanization, which the APA defines as “any process or practice that is thought to reduce human beings to the level of mechanisms or nonhuman animals, especially by denying them autonomy, individuality, and a sense of dignity.”

Prior to learning of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), I didn’t know about aiming for negative, but healthy distress (e.g., frustration) instead of negative, though unhealthy disturbance (e.g., rage), or even healthy indifference when encountering discrimination and dehumanization.

With ignorance pertaining to healthy versus unhealthy emotional outcomes, I self-disturbed quite a bit when experiencing racism. Naïvely, I thought that I wouldn’t chance upon discriminatory or dehumanizing actions when I enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps (1996). (What was I thinking!?)

To the credit of the Corps, Marines in the mid-to-late ‘90s were taught that racial composition didn’t matter in the military, as Marines were said to have all been “green,” the predominate color of camouflage utilities used in jungle warfare. However, race distinction actually exists.

Therefore, Marines were instructed to refer to white Marines as “light green” and black Marines as “dark green.” For instance, a senior Marine says, “Stop that Devil Dog!” A junior Marine then says, “Which one, the bla—,” as he’s interrupted, “The dark green one,” barks the senior Marine.

For context, one source states, “Devil Dog is a nickname for a United States Marine coined during World War I. While the term’s origin has been popularly attributed to German soldiers, there is no evidence of this.”

Whereas the discrimination workaround of “light green” and “dark green” terms when referencing common racial categories was utilized, Marines widely accepted the dehumanizing moniker “Devil Dog.” Alas, the military was full of contradictions.

For example, having first explored the topic when attending boot camp, I often write about terrorism within my blog. For instance, I stated in Shootin’, “I denounce legitimate acts of terrorism (the use of violence against non-combatants to achieve political or ideological aims).”

Also, the APA defines terrorism as “systematic intimidation or coercion to attain political or religious objectives using unlawful and unpredictable force or violence against property, persons, or governments.” This was a popular topic throughout my military service (1996-2007).

Noteworthy, both discrimination and dehumanization play integral roles in activities of terrorism. To expound upon this matter, consider a military manual that correlated with my service: The Individual’s Guide for Understanding and Surviving Terrorism (MCRP 3-02E):

Joint Publication (JP) 1-02, Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms, defines terrorism as “the calculated use of unlawful violence or threat of unlawful violence to inculcate fear; intended to coerce or to intimidate governments or societies in the pursuit of goals that are generally political, religious, or ideological.” Within this definition are three key elements—violence, fear, and intimidation. Each element produces terror in its victims. The policy of the United States is summarized as follows:

·     All terrorist acts are criminal and intolerable, whatever their motivation, and should be condemned.

·     The U.S. will support all lawful measures to prevent terrorism and bring those responsible to justice.

·     No concessions will be made to terrorist extortion, because to do so only invites more terrorist action.

·     When Americans are abducted overseas, the U.S. will look to the host government to exercise its responsibility to protect all persons within its territories, to include achieving the safe release of hostages.

·     The U.S. will maintain close and continuous contact with the host government during the incident and will continue to develop international cooperation to combat terrorism. [page 8] […]

Maintaining one’s dignity and self-respect can be very difficult, but it is vital to your survival. Your dignity and self-respect may be the keys to retaining your status as a human being in the eyes of the hostage-takers. If you can build empathy while maintaining your dignity, you can potentially lessen the aggression of a captor. Most people cannot inflict pain on another person unless that person becomes dehumanized or turned into a symbol of their hatred. [pages 74-75]

Given what you’ve learned about discrimination, dehumanization, and terrorism thus far, I now invite you to consider the contradiction related to the U.S. assisting the Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu’s terroristic actions regarding genocide, ethnic cleansing, and war crimes.

This has occurred under the presidential administrations of former U.S. President Joe Biden and current U.S. President Donald Trump. This isn’t merely a matter of someone claiming that I have a tail. For example, I stated in Talkin’ All That Jazz (4/28/2024):

When Israeli officials demand the death to all members of Hamas – apparently unable to separate Palestinian civilians from Hamas members – and declaring them “human animals;” are you in support of such declarations and subsequent behavior?

The APA defines an animal as “a living organism generally distinguished from plants by having motility and mechanisms for rapid response to outside events.” In scientific terminology, humans fall under the broad category of Animalia. Still, I stated in Sir Bedevere the Wise (6/12/2024):

[C]onsider how one source reported, “Israel’s Ambassador to Berlin Ron Prosor said the Western world must stand with Israel as it fights the ‘bloodthirsty animals’ of Hamas.” Dehumanization, whether reflective of vermin or [nonhuman] animals, is largely unnecessary.

When Israel discriminates against Gazans and Palestinians, dehumanizing them to the point whereby a Marine Corps manual would classify the rhetoric of Israeli authorities as akin to terrorism, then you may consider what I stated in They Best to be Ready to Move (1/14/2025):

I value thinking which is rational—based in accordance with both logic and reason. Thus, when teaching people about rational living through the method of [REBT], I use psychoeducation to illustrate rational thinking by way of syllogisms:

Form (modus ponens) –

If p, then q; p; therefore, q.

Premise 1: If p, then q.

Premise 2: Affirm p.

Conclusion: Conclude q.

Bear in mind that the premises in an argument, proposition, or belief of this form will always lead to the conclusion. This is the case even when the premises aren’t true.

Equally important, in order to be considered rational the argument, proposition, or belief empirically must remain in accordance with both logic and reason. Now, consider the following example which is comprised of three statements made by Israeli officials:

Example –

If Israeli officials maintain that Hamas members are “human animals,” then “flattening Gaza” is an absolute must—even if men, women and children unassociated with Hamas or the conflict are killed, because “Gaza should be erased.”

Israeli officials maintain that Hamas members are “human animals.”

Therefore, “flattening Gaza” is an absolute must—even if men, women and children unassociated with Hamas or the conflict are killed, because “Gaza should be erased.”

Depending on one’s moral, ethical, or legal perspective, these premises and resulting conclusion may be deemed rational. Clearly, the proposition follows logical form. However, I reject the proposal on the grounds of unreasonableness.

Unlike individuals who morally, ethically, or legally maintain that the (arguably) unjustified killing of men, women, and children who are neither directly nor indirectly associated with Hamas is a necessary action, I maintain that the slaughter of unarmed civilians is a war crime.

When (not if) the U.S. actively supports Israel’s discriminatory, dehumanizing, and terroristic rhetoric and activities in the Middle East, then (rationally speaking) the U.S. is culpable for the same war crimes as Israel! Now, consider that one source states (8/16/2026):

An extremist Israeli lawmaker in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition publicly advocated for killing “30 to 40” people in Gaza each night, comments that surfaced Sunday [8/16/2026] and were quickly shared by Palestinian media.

Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir made the statement while speaking to a former Gaza-held hostage, Rom Braslavski, on Braslavski’s podcast. The two were discussing Israel’s recovery from the Hamas attack of Oct. 7, 2023, when Ben-Gvir criticized Israel’s recent drawdown of strikes in Gaza.

“It’s no secret, I disagree with the prime minister,” he said. “I think targeted assassinations should be carried out in Gaza, taking down 30 to 40 every night. Not just those who pose an immediate threat — there are people there who are not worthy of life. They shouldn’t live. They’re not even people.”

In the past, similar statements by Ben-Gvir and other Israeli officials were widely condemned. Many have been presented to the U.N.’s [United Nations] world court as evidence of genocidal intent. Israel denies it has committed genocide in Gaza.

Herein, I’ve cited evidence of discrimination, dehumanization, and terrorism committed by both Israel and the U.S. Claiming of Gazans and Palestinians, “They’re not even people,” is what in REBT is known as a global evaluation.

Of this matter, I stated in Evaluations and Appraisals: Men Are Gross, Trash, and Pigs (12/5/2025), “Ultimately, global evaluations (also “appraisals” or “global appraisals”) serve as prescriptive hot cognitions which value (or devalue) oneself, others, and life.”

If someone claimed that because I’m part black, I therefore have a tail, then the implication is that I’m more nonhuman animal than human animal. If someone then states that I’m useless, bad, or not even a person because of this implication, then that’s a global evaluation.

In the case of Israel’s progressively demeaning rhetoric toward Gazans and Palestinians, non-Israelis are said to be “human animals,” “bloodthirsty animals,” and “they’re not even people.” The implication of these statements is that such people’s lives are insignificant and worthless.

The logic then follows, though not reasonably so, that people in Gaza (and perhaps elsewhere in the Middle East, given the current war of choice and aggression against Iran) simply must be exterminated—as one does with an infestation of insignificant and worthless vermin.

Such discriminatory, dehumanizing, and terroristic rhetoric and actions are akin to Nazism. Taking a principled stance on free speech, I support the right to express neo-Nazi rhetoric. Yet, I draw a hard moral, ethical, and legal line at “killing ‘30 to 40’ people in Gaza each night”!

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As a psychotherapist, I’m pleased to try to help people with an assortment of issues ranging from anger (hostility, rage, and aggression) to relational issues, adjustment matters, trauma experience, justice involvement, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, anxiety and depression, and other mood or personality-related matters.

At Hollings Therapy, LLC, serving all of Texas, I aim to treat clients with dignity and respect while offering a multi-lensed approach to the practice of psychotherapy and life coaching. My mission includes: Prioritizing the cognitive and emotive needs of clients, an overall reduction in client suffering, and supporting sustainable growth for the clients I serve. Rather than simply trying to help you to feel better, I want to try to help you get better!

Deric Hollings, LPC, LCSW

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