menticide
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menticide
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From Latin mēns (“mind”) or mentālis (“mental”) + -cide (“killing”), from Latin -cīdium, by analogy to homicide, genocide, etc. Coined during the 1950s.
noun menticides · mentacide
- Brain-washing, conditioning people to abandon their beliefs. In the last phases of brainwashing and menticide, the self-humiliating submission of the victims serves as an inner defensive device annihilating the prosecuting inquisitor in a magic way.
- Efforts to destroy the mind or the will of an individual or group of people. In response, black groups accuse school personnel of practicing genocide and "menticide" (miseducation) for allowing black children to get away with conduct they would not condone in white children.
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noun brain-washing
| Deutsch | Mentizid |
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