Rios's concept of social incapacitation reminded me that dehumanization isn't just the explicit labeling of someone as subhuman, it is all the little ways a society is structured to exclude and demoralize a certain group. Not investing resources in a community, allowing the police to brutalize them, and criminalizing their very culture all work to promote the message 'these people don't matter,' even if the ones implementing these practices don't say it explicitly. #so345