Rethinking "humanity"

limits of a concept in the press and notes to overcome dehumanization

Abstract

Abstract: Conceptions of democracy and humanity from a western and liberal perspective were strongly adopted by the Brazilian press. Thus, while publicizing issues arising from the country's social inequality, this apparatus courts economic/political systems that exacerbate these same inequalities. As a result, we have the continuity of a discourse on humanity in which the human is almost always synonymous with white, male and owner of greater capital. In this article, we propose the adoption of humanity through intersectional and non-colonial readings by journalism as ways of overcoming dehumanizing ways of saying and doing.