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I can think of many examples where the opposite had been true (especially where protagonists have been certain of their own righteousness).
Is there any precedent from history where dehumanising a large group of people on political or moral grounds has had a good outcome?
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The religious wars in Ireland in the 17th C would be an example of where dehumanising rhetoric (on both sides) had disastrous consequences.
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Some possible answers to the question. I am seeking to be thought provoking BTW; dehumanising tends towards legitimising bad solutions. :)
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I wondered if anybody would say denazification. Arguably narrative of not "ordinary Germans" was attempt to avoid mass dehumanisation...
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It's often manipulated another powerless group into joining in, thereby temporarily feeling better about themselves by proxy
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The denazification efforts in Germany was indiscriminate when assigning blame but helped to quash Nazi romanticism in Germany.
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Dehumanising workers (by reducing them to their labour) allowed for the acceleration the Industrial Revolution.
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Excommunication is placed an individual into a dehumanised-by-morality set and created a form of medieval check and balance.
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