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Dehumanization Turns ImpactsDehumanization makes every impact inevitable David Berube 97, professor of speech communication, NANOTECHNOLOGY MAGAZINE, June/July http://www.cla.sc.edu/ENGL/faculty/berube/prolong.htm Assuming we are able to predict who or what are optimized humans, this entire resultant worldview smacks of eugenics and Nazi racial science. This would involve valuing people as means. Moreover, there would always be a superhuman more super than the current ones, humans would never be able to escape their treatment as means to an always further and distant end. This means-ends dispute is at the core of Montagu and Matson's treatise on the dehumanization of humanity. They warn: "its destructive toll is already greater than that of any war, plague, famine, or natural calamity on record -- and its potential danger to the quality of life and the fabric of civilized society is beyond calculation. For that reason this sickness of the soul might well be called the Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse.... Behind the genocide of the holocaust lay a dehumanized thought; beneath the menticide of deviants and dissidents... in the cuckoo's next of America, lies a dehumanized image of man... (Montagu & Matson, 1983, p. xi-xii). While it may never be possible to quantify the impact dehumanizing ethics may have had on humanity, it is safe to conclude the foundations of humanness offer great opportunities which would be foregone. When we calculate the actual losses and the virtual benefits, we approach a nearly inestimable value greater than any tools which we can currently use to measure it. Dehumanization is nuclear war, environmental apocalypse, and international genocide. When people become things, they become dispensable. When people are dispensable, any and every atrocity can be justified. Once justified, they seem to be inevitable for every epoch has evil and dehumanization is evil's most powerful weapon. AT: No Patriarchy400 women, as young as 9 months old, are victims of violence that is dominant in military culture in Japan Kirk, 08-Ph.D. in political sociology from the London School of Economics, founding member of the East Asia-US-Puerto Rico Women's Network Against Militarism, chaired the Women's Studies Program at Antioch College (1992-1995), Jane Watson Irwin Visiting Chair in Women's Studies at Hamilton College (1999-2001), Rockefeller Fellowship in Women's Studies (University of Hawaii, 2002) (Gwyn, Washington, DC: Foreign Policy In Focus, "Gender and U.S. Bases in Asia-Pacific”, March 14, 2008, http://www.fpif.org/articles/gender_and_us_bases_in_asia-pacific) Massive Violence against women is pervasive at U.S. bases in the region and in prevailing military culture and training. The case of Okinawa is especially shocking. In the past 62 years, there have been 400 reported cases of women who have been attacked, kidnapped, abused, gang-raped, or murdered by U.S. troops. Victims have included a nine-month old baby and girls between six and 15 years old. Most recently, in February 2008, Staff Sgt. Tyrone Luther Hadnott, aged 38, of Camp Courtney in Okinawa, was arrested and charged with raping a 14-year-old girl. More than 180 disclosed cases of rape have been committed—that number will rise absent the plan Eiko, 05-Okinawa Women’s Act against Military Violence (Asato, Transnational Institute, “The Human Right of Children and Women under the US Military Administration: Raped Lives”, 7-18-05, http://tniclone.test.koumbit.net/archives/asem-seoul_008eiko) Massive Following the 1995 incident in which US soldiers raped an elementary school girl, women in Okinawa began to investigate incidents of rape, which had occurred after the World War II. First, they collected newspaper clippings and cases on which they had already acquired testimonies. Although this was not a full-scale interview survey, a picture of the post-war rape incidents began to be revealed. According to a report entitled "Post-War Crimes against Women of Okinawa by US Soldiers" by the Association of Women in Action Against Military and Military Bases, the number of rape cases between 1945 and 1997 was about 180, of which 22 were committed against young women less than 20 years of age. A nine-month-old baby was even included. However, this figure is only the tip of the iceberg. Many of the crimes committed by soldiers have not been disclosed. The problems of raped of women in Okinawa during and after the war remain to be revealed. At least 300 cases that can be uncovered illustrate the military violence against women in Okinwa-however, countless cases still go unreported Akibayashi* and Takazato**, 09-*Ed. D from the Teachers College Columbia University, associate professor at the College of International Relations at Ritsumeikan University, International Vice President of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, **Co-Chair of Okinawa Women Act Against Military Violence (Kozue and Suzuyo, The Bases of Empire: The Global Struggle Against Military Posts, ed. by Catherine Lutz, page 260, accessed via Google Books) Massive Having worked with many victims and survivors of sexual violence, OMAAMV women started to compile the cases which were brought to their attention or those which occurred in their own communities that were never reported to the police, including in the accounts and memoirs both documented cases and those recorded as oral histories. The most current, seventh revision of the chronology, accounts for around 300 cases of different sorts of assaults against women and girls, including cases of gang rape, attempted rape, abduction, and murder. OWAAMV members’ efforts to collect cases from various sources including oral histories that illustrate the realities of military violence against women. Even after major incidents that draw national attention, brutal acts of violence from the US military still occur daily Eiko, 05-Okinawa Women’s Act against Military Violence (Asato, Transnational Institute, “The Human Right of Children and Women under the US Military Administration: Raped Lives”, 7-18-05, http://tniclone.test.koumbit.net/archives/asem-seoul_008eiko) Massive I looked through newspapers of those days in order to find out more about the Yumiko incident. I was surprised when I skimmed through the papers of about two weeks from September 4 to 19. One week after the Yumiko incident, an American soldier raped another 9-year-old girl. In those days incidents and accidents involving American soldiers were happening almost everyday. I will just list the cases, which occurred during the period between September 4 and 19. September 6: A foreign man attacked F (a 20-year-old woman) from Kita-Nakagusuku Village on the way home from her friend's house, and attempted to assault her, but she had a narrow escape as a passing taxi driver protected her. September 5 at about 2 p.m.: A practice bomb was dropped from a US rocket plane which was flying over a field north of Isagawa District, Haji Village from south to north. The bomb was emitting white smoke, and it caused a big uproar, but fortunately there was no damage to human life. September 10: A B-29 bomber from Kadena Air Base crashed into the ocean near Miyako-jima. September 11: The "second Yumiko incident" occurred. At about midnight on September 10, Mr. A (46 years old), a farmer living in Myodo 5, Gushikawa Village and his wife T noticed the sound of someone trying to break down the front door. Mr. A opened the door and a black soldier stepped into the living room without taking off his shoes and demanded a woman. Mr. A said there were no women in the house but the soldier was insistent. Surprised, Mr. A let his eldest daughter (11 years old) escape from the back door. Then, he went out to get aid from a neighbor, leaving the second daughter B (9 years old), first son (six), and second son (4) sleeping in the bedroom. When he came back, he found that the second daughter B had been kidnapped. Together with the neighbors, he looked for her in the neighborhood. And 20 minutes later, B came home crying with her abdominal region covered with blood. At about 3 a.m. on September 12, three black soldiers tried to get into the women's dormitory in Koya district, Korai Village, but ran away as people began to make noise. From the 10th to 11th in the jurisdiction of Macbara Police Station in Gushikawa Village, five incidents by American soldiers including burglaries and arson, occurred one after another. At about 11 p.m. on the 14th, two black soldiers entered the house of Ms. Okawa Hanako in the Perry District, Naha City. Her husband discovered the soldiers taking the sleeping Hanako's clothes off and trying to rape her. When the husband tried to stop them, they tried to strangle him, hit his face, and stabbed him on his right arm, but ran away. Mr. A., a taxi driver, was almost robbed of his car by two black soldiers on the road to the beach. On the 19th, three American soldiers entered the house of Mr. Y. in Naha City with their shoes on. They threatened the family, demanding women, but when the family cried out for help, they ran away. In the whole surrounding area, such break-ins have been frequent. On the 19th, three foreign soldiers whom he picked up in Naha City and asked to be taken to the Harbor View threatened a taxi driver. They put a knife to his neck. The rule and occupation of the US military continued afterwards, and there was a constant stream of incidents, with residents and children as victims. Directory: files files -> Answer True False 2 points Question 2 files -> Integer programming and game theory files -> 4 Integer Programming files -> Bpa vehicle Window Repair Scenario #1 task: Procure vehicle window relacement. Objective files -> Pop Warner History files -> North Carolina Inclusion Initiative Mapping Where Children with ieps are Being Served Purpose files -> Fall 2013 Spring 2014 Program Data: Standard 1 Exhibit 4d files -> Hanban – asia society confucius classrooms network 2010 request for proposal files -> Northern England’s set-jetting locations Download 1.23 Mb. Share with your friends:
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