Rejected petition Consider making the Dehumanising of people through the media a hate crime.

The constant dehumanising of human individuals, societies, refugees and cultures in the media is only used to validate negative views of others, resulting in a national lack of understanding and empathy and is harming our society by normalising unjustified hate. The media must be held accountable.

More details

https://web.stanford.edu/class/e297c/war_peace/media/hpropaganda.html

http://www.wired.co.uk/article/media-dehumanising-immigrants

http://www.headstuff.org/2015/08/western-media-and-the-dehumanisation-of-migrants/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dehumanization

http://phys.org/news/2013-09-media-role-dehumanizing-immigrants-refugees.html

https://kar.kent.ac.uk/35378/1/Vasiljevic%20&%20Viki%20-%20%20Chapter%20-%20KAR.pdf

This petition was rejected

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Date submitted 8 July 2016
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