subhumans
Less than people
Subhumans is the plural of subhuman—people regarded as less than fully human.
The term has been used to justify atrocities, from Nazi propaganda labeling Jews and Slavs as *Untermenschen* to rhetoric dehumanizing other groups targeted for persecution.
It remains deeply offensive, reducing people to something beneath human dignity: The regime's newspapers called them subhumans who didn't deserve to live.
Denying personhood to others
- otheringViewing as fundamentally different
- degradationDecline in condition
- vilificationAbusive condemnation of someone
- demonizationCasting as evil
animalization · objectification · denigration · brutalization · stigmatization · vermin · parasites · savages
Nazi genocide of Jews
- NaziGerman fascist party member
- eugenicsControlled human reproduction theory
- exterminationComplete destruction of a group
- ethnic cleansingSystematic removal of populations
Auschwitz · concentration camps · mass murder · atrocity · Nuremberg · propaganda · Rwandan genocide · Tutsi
Prejudice based on ethnicity
- bigotryIntolerance toward differing views
- supremacismIdeology claiming group superiority
- xenophobiaHatred of outsiders
- casteismBias by hereditary social class
apartheid · segregation · discrimination · intolerance · ethnocentrism · marginalization · exclusion · scapegoating
dehumanization
Denying personhood to others
- otheringViewing as fundamentally different
- degradationDecline in condition
- vilificationAbusive condemnation of someone
demonization · animalization · objectification · denigration · brutalization · stigmatization · vermin · parasites · savages · beasts
Holocaust
Nazi genocide of Jews
- NaziGerman fascist party member
- eugenicsControlled human reproduction theory
- exterminationComplete destruction of a group
ethnic cleansing · Auschwitz · concentration camps · mass murder · atrocity · Nuremberg · propaganda · Rwandan genocide · Tutsi · cockroaches
racism
Prejudice based on ethnicity
- bigotryIntolerance toward differing views
- supremacismIdeology claiming group superiority
- xenophobiaHatred of outsiders
casteism · apartheid · segregation · discrimination · intolerance · ethnocentrism · marginalization · exclusion · scapegoating · disenfranchisement
subhumanssuperhumans
People with extraordinary abilities
demigods · superbeings · supermen · gods · higher beings