Dehumanization, which marks not only those whose humanity has been stolen, but also (though in a different way) those who have stolen it, is a distortion of the vocation of becoming more fully human.
Dehumanization doesn't just mark the oppressed whose humanity has been overwritten, but in the process itself the oppressors have become dehumanized. Those who have stolen (prevented) others humanity have also lost their own humanities.
