Believing humans stand apart from earth enables classist oppression

Evidence

In these texts humanization does not constitute an end goal of establishing a superior “enlightened Man” where people are above or beyond the earth and its creatures. Rather, humanization recognizes that all people are in and with the earth at all times. Imagining that some people exist outside of a relationship with the earth is a precondition for maintaining classist ideologies and oppressive socioeconomic and political arrangements that are toxic for the earth and all its inhabitants. — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 1077

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to earlier chapter 18 claim that viewing humans as separate from nature enables resource exploitation without conscience. — connects to: Oppressors disguise human-made conditions as natural facts to block revolt — Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity, 86
• DEFINE: Reframes humanization as being-with-the-earth rather than transcendence of it.

Broader Connections

• Oppressors disguise human-made conditions as natural facts to block revolt #expands (0.80) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity, 86