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Logical Fallacy of DehumanizingThe Logical Fallacy of Dehumanizing occurs when an ad hominem attack is made in such a way as to portray the target of the attack as not really human rather than discussing the issue using sound reasoning. Examples of the Logical Fallacy of DehumanizingWhen a label is put on a group of people, it can become a dehumanizing mechanism:
To make a person or group of people the target of jokes is a way of dehumanizing. 
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