He points to the "strong reactionary lobby" which embraces the "prison works" doctrines and regards prisoners as "almost sub-human".
In Chasing the Stars, the "have nots" are called "drones", and they are treated as almost sub-human, deserving their misfortune for being lazy or stupid.
In Mexico, drug lords target people who have been treated as almost sub-human all their lives.
"Children were almost sub-human".
However, it becomes painfully clear that no matter the culpability in either case, someone cannot inhabit the paradox of torturer and god without implicating himself or herself as sub-human as well.
Griffith portrays black people as sub-human beings who are just fine as long as they accept and stay in their place of subjugation.
Producer Bonnie Curtis described the character as "this sub-human monster the kids feel they are becoming".
And, as Toby Ibbotson has observed, the yetis – classified as sub-human, persecuted, shipped across Europe in a meat wagon; rescued, traumatised, from the brink of extinction – are Jewish.
For the first time in his life, Frank began to see the humanity of those he had previously viewed as sub-human.
This affects the Muslim's collective-psyche as it promotes the sentiment that the world sees Muslims as sub-human and that laws related to human rights don't apply to Muslims.
