Animalization, A Collection of Images

Depicting the enemy as some kind of animal is a time-honored method of dehumanization. And once the enemy is no longer human, a lot of our usual moral inhibitions fall to the wayside. Here are some examples:

this anti-immigrant ad from Hong Kong reads: “Do you want Hong Kong to pay 1 million HKD per 18 minute raising illegitimate child from mainland? Hong Kong people have had enough of it! We understand that you suffer from contaminated milk powder, so we tolerate your raid upon our milk powder; we understand that you don’t have freedom, so we receive you over here through “free pass”; we understand that your education is poor, so we share our educational resource with you; we understand that you don’t read traditional Chinese, so we use “cripple” Chinese character (simplified Chinese) in the following: “Please respect our local culture when you are here, without Hong Kong you are all doomed.” Strongly demand the government to amend the 24th clause of Basic Laws! Stop the massive invasion of double negative pregnant women from mainland. (double negative = none of the woman’s parents are from HK)”

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American World War Two propaganda poster depicting the Japanese as rats

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Anti-German image from World War One depicting Germans as … some kind of animal

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Nazi cross kills a jewish rat

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Nazi propaganda depicting Jews as bacteria and disease carriers (“Krankheitserreger”)

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It seems Charles Darwin descended from monkeys, hahaha

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the more common objects of monkeyfication are of course Africans and African Americans

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The Obamas in the Planet of the Apes

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and in the interest of objectivity, Bush as a loving monkey

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More on animalization here.