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formal citizenship has often failed to protect people who are already treated as less than fully human.
“Citizenship” usually means legal belonging, rights, recognition, protection by the state. But the phrase “hollow formality” means that, for dehumanized people, citizenship can exist on paper while being meaningless in practice.
— Jun 14, 2026 09:16AM
“Citizenship” usually means legal belonging, rights, recognition, protection by the state. But the phrase “hollow formality” means that, for dehumanized people, citizenship can exist on paper while being meaningless in practice.
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the burden of proof gets placed on the oppressed instead of on the system harming them.
— Jun 18, 2026 11:00AM
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When a dominant society sees a group as less than human, it treats their normal human reactions to violence, control, humiliation, or occupation as irrational, savage, criminal, or dangerous. So something that would be understood as “natural resistance” from one person becomes labeled as “primal behavior” or “criminality” when it comes from the dehumanized group.
— Jun 14, 2026 09:11AM
