Their brains got desensitized to it, and how much it was desensitized could predict how much more someone would lie the next time.
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It's a regularly-tread idea that access to excessive pornography online has desensitized us to graphic sex, and similarly that 24-hour uncensored news cycles have desensitized us to graphic trauma.
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Perhaps it's because we've become desensitized to the ABC franchise.
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As breaches become more common, the public may be desensitized.
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" The actress joked that she might be "desensitized to it.
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However, we can quickly become desensitized to these scary images.
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It could be that we're desensitized to bombings and explosions.
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Unless you've become desensitized through repetition, emergency removals are awful.
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Will people eventually become desensitized by its emotional, psychological effects?
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Do you ever get desensitized to the horrors you witness?
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I think we as a public become desensitized to these things.
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Yet that doesn't mean we should become desensitized to his bigotry.
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TikTok is filled with teens 'desensitized' to crises at this point
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So obviously everyone's sort of desensitized in a lot of ways.
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The level of dilapidation is something we've all become desensitized to.
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They're desensitized to it and, in some cases, it's vicariously thrilling.
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"Maybe I'm desensitized, but I think she's just fine," Tycia said.
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I became desensitized to the violence that I witnessed around me.
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And while we suffer, the world becomes desensitized to that suffering.
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It's sad that you become desensitized to it after a while.
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"Our frustration is, we deal with a very desensitized public," Lowery said.
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Has Mike simply not been desensitized yet to taking a human's life?
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As he saw it, people had become desensitized to their own surroundings.
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"I don't think that you become desensitized to it," Mr. Scheffler said.
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I've encountered so many awful stories like this that I've become desensitized.
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"I know, you honestly get kind of desensitized to it," Cabello responded.
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"I know, you honestly get kind of desensitized to it," Cabello said.
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Ultimately, they hope the tool allows media consumers to not grow desensitized.
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To be fair, traders, desensitized, uneducated and unskilled, are no monsters by birth.
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"Fariña's silly pen-pal comment shows how desensitized we've become," Torres told me.
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I got desensitized pretty quickly, but preparedness was definitely not in the cards.
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After being raised on chaotic news headlines, Generation Z is desensitized to crises.
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"Apparently you would prefer we become 'desensitized' to jihad mass murder," Spencer wrote.
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We used to feel hot and bothered observing penetration, but we've become desensitized.
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Once we couldn't die, we became completely desensitized to the value of human life.
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"I've become rather desensitized to how much sexy I put out," Girardi tells PEOPLE.
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" By the time it's take 14, everyone is so desensitized, it's like, "Whatever, man.
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"You do end up getting a bit desensitized," he adds with characteristic British understatement.
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So it's possible that I have successfully desensitized him to loud, terrifying noises already!
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Loved ones mourned on street corners while desensitized kids laughed and played close by.
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It's just something that happens so often that the news becomes desensitized to it.
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Maybe I've just become desensitized to these knee-jerk, teleprompter apologies for public misdeeds.
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The solution to the horror that is the Tyler assault scene isn't giving viewers so many male rape scenes that we become desensitized to them in the same way pop culture has tried to make us desensitized to sexual assaults against women.
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But when violence is such a significant part of storytelling, it's easy to become desensitized.
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"We are all in some sense becoming, by necessity, desensitized to Duterte's language," he said.
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A military veteran, he had become desensitized to seeing violence against people, he told me.
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There's an argument that says people exposed to violence in media become desensitized to it.
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Sirovatka tells me that on a certain level, he is desensitized to working with brains.
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In this age of obfuscation, we've become desensitized to political rhetoric that ignores the facts.
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With each chemical attack that goes unpunished, the world grows progressively desensitized to their horror.
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One hypothesis is that officers got used to the cameras and became desensitized to them.
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Or perhaps they have become desensitized to the dishonesty by the sheer volume of it.
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As that cycle winds on and on, we become desensitized to the last terrible thing.
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She is isolated from community and desensitized to the concerns of the people around her.
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People are so accustomed to it that people are desensitized to a lot of stuff.
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That's a massive barrier for Trump to overcome before he's truly desensitized Americans to his nonsense.
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J, you kind of become desensitized to it I guess so it seemed normal after awhile.
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I think we also see violent imagery all the time and have become desensitized to it.
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He offered an explanation: Tinder, and the act of swiping itself, had desensitized him to women.
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We've- at least for me, and the people around me- we've become desensitized to our privacy.
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"When unwritten rules are violated over and over, we become overwhelmed -- and then desensitized," Levitsky wrote.
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At first I didn't think too much of it––probably from being desensitized to gun violence.
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"Frankly, we were dealing with a desensitized public and media when we did that," Lowery said.
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As with special effects in movies, consumers become desensitized to ads the more they see them.
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"With each new technique, it makes me wonder how fast they will be desensitized to it."
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You really become desensitized to the human condition when you're at a place like Abu Ghraib.
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Presenting enslaved Africans as the butt of jokes desensitized white Americans to the horrors of slavery.
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I think the consumption part of image-sharing will make us become more desensitized to everything.
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Eskinder grew concerned that Nafkot would become desensitized to the brutality and grow resentful of the world.
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Police action is so prevalent, he says, that the residents of São Paulo have become increasingly desensitized.
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Do you think that people have gotten desensitized and shows have to do more to shock viewers?
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Everyone here -- Republican, Democrat and other -- are desensitized to a degree about racial issues from someone's past.
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During the course of four years, it will be easy to become desensitized to a Trump tweet.
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"As more new and unique flavors become available, consumers become desensitized to them more quickly," Technomic wrote.
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Ballad after ballad after ballad, I become desensitized to the blooming emotions, the love, and the heartbreak.
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"When you think you have anonymity, it's easy to become desensitized to what you're saying," he said.
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Many children were desensitized to violence through ceaseless indoctrination, paramilitary training and participation in various other crimes.
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"They're not sounding like some agency-speak which I think people are pretty desensitized to," he says.
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It's a difficult proposition, especially in a country so desensitized to the ugly externalities of car ownership.
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He quickly had to become desensitized to the idea of killing walkers before they could kill him.
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Before these endless images of horror put us at risk of becoming a desensitized society, we must act.
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Some of the moms have mentioned they're very concerned about that exposure and children being desensitized to violence.
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"They slowly, incrementally introduce the weirdness, so by the end, you're desensitized to it," an ex-member says.
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But that doesn't mean we're desensitized enough to not know when a copycat moment is flat-out wrong.
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Are you worried that people are going to get desensitized to these graphics and stop taking them seriously?
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We've become desensitized from the highest level of office because we have no action to follow the words.
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It's almost like they've become desensitized to the abuse, as if it was just part of gay culture.
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This behavior can backfire, shielding him from necessary criticism on the large issues, because voters will become desensitized.
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I'm happy that nothing ever happened, but I worried about growing desensitized to the sheer number of notifications.
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This means it's likely that people keep lying not because of rational calculation, but because they become desensitized.
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People become desensitized to bad behavior in the same way perfume wearers lose the aroma and apply more.
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The findings suggested that an area of the brain associated with emotional responses could become desensitized to lying.
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Center himself, make sure he's grounded, make sure his chakras are desensitized, and that he's not wide open.
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An axiom of Wall Street is that markets hate uncertainty, but they seem to become desensitized to it.
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Perhaps the public is now so desensitized to scandal that the anti-corruption message will have limited effects.
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McQueen makes the desensitized visceral, if only to make the drop back to numbness that much more acute.
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And people have become so desensitized to these things that it really just doesn't seem to matter anymore.
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As Hannah Arendt taught us in Eichmann in Jerusalem, perpetrators depend on us being desensitized to the victims' suffering.
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It's also possible to become desensitized to leptin — called leptin resistance — if you are constantly stuffing yourself with food.
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He and others have become somewhat desensitized to them, but "I still see material that shocks me," he said.
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Desensitized by gruesome re-examinations of vicious killers gone by, true crime fans rarely get invested in financial transgressions.
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The doctors say he is desensitized now, that all he needs are monthly shots for the next five years.
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"Overuse of AMBER Alert could result in the public becoming desensitized to Alerts when they are issued," it says.
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Another possibility is that those writing to Cruz may be desensitized to violence through their own lives, Ludwig said.
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Over time, "people have become more desensitized to certain swears and even expect them at times," the researchers note.
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"I feel like now I'm very desensitized to the threat of my information being looked at by people," they said.
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Freed from narrative speculation, the desensitized mind begins to wander, noticing the differences instead of the similarities among the vignettes.
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At first it shocked me how many people at my high school vaped, but I quickly became desensitized to it.
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We get desensitized to our own lying as the areas of our brain that correlate with negativity become less active.
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Maybe you've just become too desensitized to the horrors of bodily ASMR for anything to simultaneously disturb and satisfy you.
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It seems we have become so desensitized to inequality, hatred and violence that we no longer are galvanized to action.
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ISIS is a particularly adept practitioner of social media recruitment: Entire communities become desensitized and increasingly numb to the evil.
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Individually, these trials seemed to have been very successful, with anywhere from 20183 to 80 percent of patients becoming desensitized.
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Q&A Q. Why do we become desensitized to a perfume we are wearing while others can still smell it?
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Other evidence showed that artificial sweeteners desensitized rodents' digestive tracts, making them feel less full and more prone to overeating.
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They seemed to genuinely bother him at first but over time aides said it appeared he'd grown desensitized to them.
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Many Americans are basically desensitized to the issue of sexual spousal abuse, a concept feminists once fought hard to legitimize.
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Westerns doubled as a campaign against so-called savages in a way that desensitized us to the savages we'd become.
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Are you at all desensitized to violence in pop culture after seeing human bodies in this manner for so long?
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"The markets have become desensitized to anything that's negative," said Kristina Hooper, global markets strategist at investment management firm Invesco.
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My friend David came up with a starter plan that includes staring down hatred — and vowing to never become desensitized.
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But it also reflects a rising concern that a blizzard of cancer warnings has desensitized consumers to serious health hazards.
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"We have become desensitized to seeing black men being arrested, men like Glen that live life right," the borough president added.
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"Voters are intelligent and I think they've become somewhat frustrated and desensitized somewhat -- that's an understatement -- with the gridlock," he said.
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They have desensitized people to the value of human life, to the dignity of women, to the dignity of human decency.
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To some extent, people are perhaps desensitized about breast cancer deaths — we're not as shocked by it as we should be.
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Normal people would go crazy after needlecasting too many times — so that's why this breed of desensitized, tough soldiers was developed.
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We would become desensitized to watching dozens of innocent people being gunned down in schools, places of worship, even music venues.
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By dialing up every Trump tweet to a 10, we on all sides are rapidly desensitized to genuine White House mistakes.
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Although the nation has become effectively desensitized to Trump's bullying, it was still jarring to hear him disparage some undocumented immigrants.
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Returning the young animals for this brief period apparently desensitized them to context and taught them the cage was now safe.
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Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin said guns were not a problem but that games desensitized players to the value of human life.
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Then again, it's not implausible that a society confronted with an endless stream of death might become desensitized to horrific violence.
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Someone who believes society is accelerating so fast that people have become desensitized to the many possibilities available at our disposal.
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We must pay attention to the painful scenes which take place day in and day out, without becoming desensitized or cynical.
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A good analogy from biology is what happens to people who work in foul environments and become desensitized to the odors.
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These findings suggested that the negative emotional signals initially associated with lying decrease as the brain becomes desensitized, Dr. Sharot said.
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This prevents us from becoming either desensitized or cheaply fascinated by the otherwise relentless chronicling of Bakhita's misery-filled Sudan days.
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Trump has so desensitized us that a day without a round of blunt force cruelty from the White House is newsworthy.
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Keep it a bit special; if you're sending sexual images to each other all day, every day, you'll become desensitized to it.
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"At this point I'm desensitized to it," Parker said of his gut reaction to the nonchalant way some people mention Murder Kroger.
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You can only watch so many people barrel down a mountain with ease before you become a bit desensitized to the madness.
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Some people experience the opposite, though, and their CB1 receptors may become desensitized, leading them to feel less anxious and more relaxed.
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A lot of folks have weighed in on what it could represent ... from commentary on gun control, desensitized violence and black culture.
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"Investors have been desensitized with all the news about North Korea and out of Washington," said Christian Magoon, CEO of Amplify ETFs.
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"When we become desensitized, we begin to block or lessen our feelings or our outward expression of those feelings," he tells me.
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Sometimes the wisest are the youngest in our lives, the ones who haven't yet been desensitized to the atrocities of our world.
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Perhaps another epic show (ahem, Game of Thrones) has desensitized viewers to the permanence of death with its resurrections and fake-outs?
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The Clinton campaign will not effectively make that point simply by repeating Trump's outlandish declarations, to which many voters are now desensitized.
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The argument that millennials are desensitized may be misattributed to their ability to question or completely dismiss what's in front of them.
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Trump's misstatements may have desensitized some political observers, but the ones Monday night may have shocked even those primed to hear them.
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But after 40 years many nations have become desensitized to Iran's violence and have lost the ability to imagine a peaceful Iran.
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Otherwise, they will be eroded as our expectations change, as we're desensitized to the notion that our basic rights are not inalienable.
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America is exhausted, desensitized and even disinterested in hearing about the incessant tsunami of chaos coming from the top echelons of government.
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" It's possible, he says, for a person to become "relatively desensitized to his own odors, be they bad breath, armpit BO, or farts.
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At the same time, you had all these people with military training who were desensitized to violence and full of rage and hatred.
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"In a lot of ways, we have desensitized and, in some way, traumatized entire generations of youth, because we are basically normalizing this."
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I think we've even grown desensitized to them — so if a man were to ever pay us a genuine compliment, would we know?
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It's crucial to talk about how commonplace this abuse is, but it's becoming more difficult to do so without becoming exhausted or desensitized.
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"I think the market is kind of getting desensitized to that," said Scott Brown, chief economist at Raymond James in St. Petersburg, Florida.
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As for the violence, the show is over-the-top, but after Game Of Thrones and The Walking Dead, I feel utterly desensitized.
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They are taught patrolling, searching, explosive or narcotic detection, tracking, and are desensitized to the types of equipment around which they will work.
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Even though I've become fairly desensitized to the entire process of online dating, it can be majorly tough for a lot of women.
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If you aren't using condoms, the penis can be desensitized with a topical wipe that contains 4 percent benzocaine, an ester local anesthetic.
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"I still cannot watch one of those violent movies where people are being blown up, because I'm not desensitized to that," she said.
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You know you're desensitized to violence when you walk away wondering if you can pick up one of those phones at the Apple Store.
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Infinity War kept needing to remind us that the risk of Thanos winning was universal genocide, because we're that desensitized to world-ending threats.
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The last 70 years of unrest, unpunctuated by an actual eruption, means that people could be desensitized to the real hazards of volcanic activity.
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I'm still wondering how to reconcile the unique synthesis of desensitized alienation juxtaposed with a sense of constant community online media provides during crises.
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Just getting to class at the education department can be hard in a world where you have to pass checkpoints run by desensitized guards.
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Some are trying oral immunotherapy, which exposes you to tiny amounts of the food you're allergic to in order to become desensitized to it.
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But Merriman was also resigned to the fact that as a lifelong South Carolinian, she's long become "desensitized" to the negativity in her state.
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One can't help but compare it to our current desensitized culture where Black deaths are widely spread across the internet like a WorldStar fight.
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Since we've been desensitized to the lukewarm sex that these movies have been dishing, the "final chapter" looks to be something of a ... thriller?
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We get the sense that we've been desensitized to it, that doesn't have the same bite as some of the others on this list.
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Incidentally, this busts another popular myth about porn, which is that porn users necessarily escalate to "harder" stuff over time because they become desensitized.
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Sometimes the wisest are the youngest in our lives, the ones who haven’t yet been desensitized to the atrocities of our world.
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Maciek Piasecki: I'm becoming increasingly desensitized to this kind of cover because the right-wing media does this kind of thing all the time.
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Though mass media has largely desensitized us to such fantasies, it may be a moment ripe for smaller bits of introspection and world-building.
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So inexplicably tired of the needless and terrifying violence that has gripped America, that we've become despicably desensitized to because it happens so often.
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In short: We're becoming desensitized to the devastation that the climate crisis is causing, which isn't good because the worst is still to come.
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If you're ever worried that the world is so much of a dumpster fire that you've become desensitized to any and all emotion, don't worry.
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At the end of the trial, two-thirds of the group that was given treatment were desensitized to their allergies for up to four years.
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With that in mind, is it not also possible that internet culture, from face swaps to Pepe the Frog, have desensitized us to the surreal?
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Between glitter food, Cara Cara oranges, and unicorn drinks, you'd think we'd be desensitized to seeing neon-colored food on our Instagram feeds by now.
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But what really sets this snuff film apart from the hate mail we're so desensitized to is the ill-conceived shock factor of it all.
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It's no wonder that by now, many of us have become somewhat desensitized to the pink deluge, while others are guilty of tuning out entirely.
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But my friend saw my reaction and decided to send me links to horrific shit daily for about a month—so now I am desensitized.
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"The most important outcome for the images is that people don't become desensitized by what's happening in American politics at the moment," Lugo told Forbes.
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Video games are jam-packed with examples of this, to the point where I'm almost desensitized to how bad and jarring such asides can be.
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There is a risk — probably already a reality — that many folks become desensitized to the requests for permission, accept them, and then forget about them.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads It has become a common refrain to say we've become desensitized to images of war, bloodshed, and poverty. BASTA!
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Not only do we become desensitized to the carnage, but these types of stories, Belair argues, are often antithetical to the open-world format itself.
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A 2016 study found that as a person lies more and more, the brain becomes desensitized, and is less likely to trigger an autonomic response.
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It normalized, minimized, and desensitized conservatives to a truly malicious and dangerous movement, all for the sake of "destroying political correctness" and helping Donald Trump.
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Zell said he is also concerned that years of low U.S. interest rates have desensitized the business community to the cost of capital and distorted markets.
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Over the course of six seasons, fans have seen kings and peasants killed so often that it's a wonder that we're not desensitized to it all.
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Throughout history, and to do this day, soldiers are taught to be desensitized to violence, to savor the heroics of victory, and to demonize the enemy.
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Louie Swisher: Yeah, I think kind of like how we've all become desensitized to hate speech and other forms of talk that would be considered inappropriate.
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Having the courage to stop bullying is within each of us, and is desperately needed in today's world where we are continually being desensitized to aggression.
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Public service announcement: Given the extraordinary turbulence of this week's news, we rounded up expert advice on how to keep from being overwhelmed, traumatized or desensitized.
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"Maybe we've become desensitized to thinking there's going to be a bigger movement, so we'll divert our energy to where we are being heard," he added.
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If you do the same thing over and over every day, I'd say you could get used to it, but "desensitized" is too strong a word.
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Former users reported that exposure to the language, memes, and videos on the site desensitized them to hateful language and bloodshed, even in their offline lives.
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This kind of thinking by the Republicans, that individual effort and religious faith are paramount, has desensitized them to poverty, disaster and the vagaries of disease.
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Too often, we hear about another ISIS bombing in Iraq and shrug off this news, having become so desensitized to the brutality of the Middle East.
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One potential reason for the decrease in shares in 2019 could be because men might have become "desensitized" to the issue of sexual harassment and assault.
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The career businesswoman became desensitized to personal attacks within a couple of months of arriving in Washington with her husband Jared Kushner, also a frequent press target.
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Abortion is a normalized, silent genocide, and laws like Alabama's will hopefully wake up society about how desensitized to this destruction of human life we have become.
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And, following his work with the IRC, he is hoping that his message will reach more people that have become somewhat desensitized to the world around them.
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Just in case we become desensitized or write terror off as the demonic acts of a few psychopathic men, ISIS is training young children to commit atrocities.
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Sometimes I wish I were a bit more desensitized, because whenever a grainy viral video of police brutality hits the internet, I can't help but internalize it.
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The oral drug, AR101, is sprinkled over food daily in the hope patients consuming small doses of the peanut protein will become desensitized to it over time.
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While it's oversimplifying to say violent media equals violent kids, studies show that watching, playing, and reading about graphic violence can make kids aggressive, antisocial, and desensitized.
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"No one wanted to believe it, it was so crazy how desensitized and careless she seemed about someone as close to her as her sister," she noted.
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Let's face it: society as a whole has never been more desensitized towards gruesome media, an uncanny result of the never-ending stream of media we consume.
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Instead, users have become desensitized, developing "banner blindness," and are mostly antagonistic toward advertising, with 70 percent of mobile users blocking ads or planning to do so.
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But the sudden popularity of Tompkins and Bernstein is not just about the abundance and easy accessibility of explicit material to which we have all become desensitized.
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Katherine Henriquez, also a member of the council, told CNN affiliate KABC-TV that society has become desensitized to gun violence because it's seen everyday on the news.
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And that could lead to tens of thousands of drug deaths — except under legalization, Americans may be desensitized to these deaths, much like they have been for alcohol.
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"Once you get over the initial shock of meeting Mr. J, you kind of become desensitized to it I guess so it seemed normal after awhile," she says.
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The thing about working in the adult industry for so many years, is you become really desensitized to everything that has to do with sex and naked people.
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While I've become fairly desensitized to celebrity deaths (I'm not a dick, I'm just in the media), I was pretty jarred when I heard about Bourdain this morning.
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"I had always thought that was because I was desensitized to whatever normal sex is, and I think there was a part of that that's true," she says.
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Harry Belafonte, the actor and singer who founded Sankofa, believes harnessing the power of celebrity for social change is essential as the country becomes "desensitized" to police violence.
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Sometimes we're desensitized to red, and so to get a look as fresh as red lipstick used to give, we turn to shades that look more like ink.
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Maybe, sadly, I've grown desensitized to a screenwriting solution that finds it a riot to transmit the toxic affliction of the rakish white hero to a black maid.
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In the past few years, politics in Washington, D.C. has set a foul standard for acceptable behavior by elected officials and Americans have seemingly become desensitized to scandal.
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I think we've become desensitized to these crucial and critical issues, because if it doesn't affect us directly, then for some reason it doesn't affect us at all.
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"The world has been desensitized to the sexualization of the breast and to violence on tv…why should it be different when it comes to breastfeeding?" the supermodel continued.
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By now, I've become so desensitized to #spon content that I just scroll right past it without taking a second to double-check... or double-tap, for that manner.
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The "Havana" singer was chatting on BBC Radio 1&aposs Breakfast with Greg James on Tuesday about how she&aposs now desensitized to the constant media attention they get.
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Lippman used positive and negative portrayals of stalking behavior in Hollywood movies to see if women become desensitized to aggressive male behavior based on what they see in films.
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The theater's aim is to measure the emotional experience of each viewing method and explore whether Shakespeare still shocks modern audience members, who are perhaps desensitized to violence onscreen.
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Crow also wrote that she is speaking out to break through the ubiquity of "pinkwashing" in October that she said has "desensitized" us to how dangerous breast cancer really is.
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"She continued, stating: "The world has been desensitized to the sexualization of the breast and to violence on TV...why should it be different when it comes to breast-feeding?
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It's hard to keep the hits straight; they've come so quickly and we've grown so desensitized to major, Earth-moving news stories coming and going ephemerally in the Trump Age.
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The benefit of this is that I've now become so desensitized to the prospect of meeting a potential romantic partner that I'm no longer nervous ahead of a first meeting.
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I'm fearful that people will become further desensitized to the kind of violence that has been going on in this country for as long as this country has been established.
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We've been desensitized by the sex and violence in premium-cable shows like Deadwood, Rome, and most notably, Game of Thrones, but Westworld seems to be going against that trend.
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The news "did impact futures overnight, but it does seem like the market is desensitized to what's going on" in the region, said Daniel Deming, managing director at KKM Financial.
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Other progressives expressed frustration that, after so many false starts, news reporters appeared to grow desensitized to the possibility of a bill ever gaining close to enough momentum to pass.
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At the same time, he said, adults, who have been desensitized by years of exposure to loud noises, may not even realize the effect that sounds have on their children.
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"These are clearly agents who are desensitized to the point of being dangerous to migrants and their co-workers," Representative Joaquin Castro, who heads the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, told ProPublica.
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The Botox brow lift became the easy choice for people who didn't want to undergo surgery and had already been desensitized to the idea of injecting chemicals in their faces.
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Mutombo moved to the U.S. from the Congo back in 1987 -- and says he's pretty much been desensitized to the terrible gun-centric headlines that have been dominating the news.
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Could this group of largely unemployed young men, desensitized to violence and used to having a feeling of power and purpose, pose a threat for the future of the region?
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Some allergy treatments simply block histamine, while others work by exposing your immune system to small doses of allergens until the body eventually becomes desensitized to them, according to the AAAAI.
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"The almost torrential criticism of Israel and the mainstreaming of anti-Zionism, including by this paper, ...has become so common that people have been desensitized to its inherent bigotry," he wrote.
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Over the past year, the world has smashed so many temperature records we've grown desensitized—March 2016 marked the 11th consecutive month where global average temperatures hit an all-time high.
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We are more desensitized to the idea of young men shaking their hips onstage for screaming girls, so outrage has shifted into a more general cynicism about the pop music industry.
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Over the last few years, the extent of Britain's mental health crisis has been slowly and painfully drip fed to us with stats that've almost desensitized us as a public body.
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But even though the Kardashians were virtually the source of my income, I still wasn't desensitized to the fact that they're basically making their own living from command + c'ing my culture.
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In my experience, men who cannot manage this end up being the kind of guys who watch an ungodly amount of porn and are desensitized to the warm body beneath them.
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"I think consumers are just desensitized to it because they live in a world where breaches are a reality," said credit expert John Ulzheimer, president of The Ulzheimer Group in Atlanta.
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That's how ubiquitous the process is and how desensitized those who actually pay attention to the recruiting landscape are to situations like Ryan Dickens': They assigned a proper name to it.
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And only a desensitized nation could continue to permit the separation of children from their parents — and detaining all of them in atrocious conditions — as a morally acceptable form of deterrence.
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We are all familiar with the ways in which Donald Trump's demagogic assault on the press has already normalized presidential mendacity, mainstreamed "alternative facts," and desensitized millions of Americans to both.
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This elicited an engaging and varied class discussion: One student shared a situation in which she had witnessed domestic abuse; another talked about how video gaming has desensitized students toward violence.
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I found that my acne usually responded to new medication fairly quickly but would always get somewhat "desensitized" to the product and eventually come back, leading me to search for something new.
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In this kitschy update, Bartel shifts his focus away from aloof bohemian artistes to desensitized showbiz hacks, represented here by a fickle studio executive (Richard Paul) and narcissistic director named Schreck (Bartel).
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By processing emotions and memories of the trauma while also paying attention to external stimuli, distressing memories and emotions become desensitized, which can lessen the symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).
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" One wrote in an email that he had become "desensitized to things that I would have maybe found appalling before, the biggest example being ISIS beheading/torture vide[os] & gore in general.
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In his drawings, some prisoners hang by their hands and others undergo other forms of torture, all while their cellmates eat their meals calmly, desensitized to the displays of inhumanity around them.
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No longer are they so fixated on narrating their own success—in fact, they seem a bit desensitized to the trappings of fame, reorienting themselves to the street and its familiar touchstones.
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To keep from being desensitized, he told me, he resolved to learn all his prisoners' names and listen to all the questions they had for him during the twice-daily head counts.
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While the researchers concluded that children are at risk of being "desensitized" to porn, many of the students surveyed were aware that porn was not the best way to learn about sex.
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Journalists and activists took to Twitter on Thursday, sharing Omran's photo and asking a simple but powerful question to those perhaps desensitized by seeing so much violence: What if he were your child?
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The argument is that overheated liberal denunciations of past Republican standard-bearers desensitized conservative and independent voters to the kind of criticism that should've been reserved for a uniquely menacing figure like Trump.
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The impact of health label warnings could also wane, just like tobacco warning labels, because people become desensitized to them, said Hammond, who has carried about research on the effect of tobacco warnings.
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To the utter shock of an audience desensitized to all things blood, guts, and abject atheism, the show transformed from one of infinite comedic cleverness, into one of equal and biting emotional intelligence.
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They're funny, but it's a mashup formula that gets a little tired and precious after a while — it might shock your grandmother, but has lost most of its power among a desensitized generation.
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We got in touch with VICE's European offices to find out whether young people in their countries have grown desensitized to terrorism or whether today's events are yet another reason to be frightened.
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The reason is the almost torrential criticism of Israel and the mainstreaming of anti-Zionism, including by this paper, which has become so common that people have been desensitized to its inherent bigotry.
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Letter To the Editor: Evan McMullin observes that we are becoming "desensitized" to the authoritarianism of Donald Trump to the detriment of our democratic institutions ("The Constitution in Danger," Op-Ed, Dec. 5).
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"My boy is very desensitized to being touched since he is a show dog so he did not mind the process or notice the 'glitter' the whole time we were there," the owner added.
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These drugs are dangerous and kill people, but Americans and policymakers have become largely desensitized to the deaths — seldom speaking to these hundreds or tens of thousands of deaths as a crisis or epidemic.
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"The average Muslim is a little desensitized to politicians' making negative comments about us," said Corey Saylor, the director of the department to monitor and combat Islamophobia at the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
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If this menu of recommended actions strikes some as overly provocative, it is only because the West has been desensitized and unaccustomed to conducting international activities in a normal manner when China is involved.
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But while Haneke meant his take on the trope in Funny Games to be a condemnation of the desensitized violence of American cinema, his film largely gave rise to knockoffs that perpetuate exactly that.
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Cheng's formulation of his fantasy world, particularly in Chapter 3, often recreates interspecies antagonism and subjugation for spectacle that does not subvert our current reality as a society desensitized to watching violence on screens.
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I find that sometimes our generation can get caught up in this depression cycle of consuming this terrible shit to a desensitized point and we forget that we can do more than just tweeting something.
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" Immigration: In a July tweet on the migrant crisis at the southern border, Steyer wrote that the Trump administration has "desensitized the Border Patrol to a shocking degree and made immigrants in desperation 'The Enemy.
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But all Americans should understand that the demonization of Donald Trump by the left-wing national media has desensitized folks like Ms. Griffin to the point where right and wrong is not even considered anymore.
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Meeting girls like Alice*, Chopra says, was an eye-opening experience that reminded her of her own privilege and responsibility to bring attention to the issues that we as a society have become desensitized to.
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But what I was driven to do was honor these girls and their families and get people to really feel about this issue — because so many were so desensitized to what was happening around them.
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His resurrection is both astonishing and entirely unsurprising when one considers that Mr. Berlusconi has over the decades conditioned and desensitized an electorate that has picked him as prime minister three times despite, well, everything.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads MEXICO CITY — Art school may be the closest thing to Hogwarts on this planet, where undergrads are desensitized to full-frontal nudity and cry in front of their classmates.
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While the first few episodes were focused on the tantalizing tension between Eve (Sandra Oh) and Villanelle (Jodie Comer), "Desperate Times" takes us back to the haunting, bloody murder season 1 pretty much desensitized us to.
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The researchers then used brain scans to show that our mind's emotional hot spot — the amygdala — becomes desensitized or used to the growing dishonesty, according to a study published online Monday in the journal Nature Neuroscience.
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But as we become desensitized to the notion that Mr. Trump is the ultimate authority, we may attribute less importance to the laws, norms and principles that uphold our system of government, which protects our rights.
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But as we become desensitized to the notion that Mr. Trump is the ultimate authority, we may attribute less importance to the laws, norms and principles that uphold our system of government, which protects our rights.
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And it also meant identifying the obvious misogyny in hip-hop, a still highly patriarchal arena that had desensitized, normalized, and even commercialized the use of the words "hoe" and "bitch" in relation to black female bodies.
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A 2016 study by sex researcher Nicole Prause in PLOS One, for example, found that people who engaged in risky sexual behaviors were more sensitive to genital stimulation, not desensitized, as the sex "addiction" model would predict.
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She claimed that by then he spoke so much about Columbine she'd become desensitized—once telling classmates, according to police interviews, "Guess who's dating the school shooter"—but that she found these references to murder too much.
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"Growing up in this age where everyone's so addicted to technology and their phones, [my fear] is that they're completely unaware of the world around them and that they become desensitized to what's around them," she explains.
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Mr. Khyber, the peace activist, said what troubled him the most was that the frequency of violence had desensitized Afghans so much that gruesome episodes like Madina's watching her father's death only briefly captured the national attention.
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It is clear that America's racial wounds and painful history are being prodded on a regular basis -- by our leaders, our entertainment icons, our public voices -- and in the process it seems we are all becoming desensitized.
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Though seemingly desensitized by years of terror on our buses and streets, much of this voluble country has been left speechless by the news of Jews being gunned down during Shabbat prayers by a ranting anti-Semite.
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Of course, the unpredictable and at times unnerving war of words between President Donald Trump and North Korea could continue to hang over markets, which acted desensitized to it on Friday after a sharp sell-off Thursday.
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In her desensitized world, people lose all capacity for emotion at about 10, psychotic gangs called Fish ravage the city, and hateful 1-percenters buy "synaffs" from a pharmaceutical behemoth named RealCorp just so they can feel.
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I wanted to portray the families of missing and murdered Indigenous women (MMIW) in a way that wasn't desensitized—with natural portraiture, as well as evidential landscapes, that told their stories in a humane and intimate manner.
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The word that kept coming up during my research is the one Matalas used: "desensitized" — as in, the more deaths people see on TV, the more difficult it is to make them feel anything other than dull apathy.
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It's easy to become desensitized to the never-ending procession of data hacks in news headlines, but once someone starts stealing your identity or taking control of your social media accounts, you'll probably give it your full attention.
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Why it matters: The onslaught of Aleppo has desensitized observers, while the fixation on de-escalation zones, the campaign against ISIS and stabilization efforts have created blind spots in places like Douma, where siege and human misery continue.
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It depends on the individual, but living in a digitally linked world where broadcasts of violence are instantaneous and almost commonplace means that many of us are becoming desensitized, Anita Gadhia-Smith, a psychologist in Washington, said Friday.
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Also, the notion that sometimes one thing that can happen when somebody's getting a lot of coverage, is that you become desensitized to it—you forget the humanity of the person, which is essentially what happened to her.
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"I think this is something that transit should have done a long time ago and it would have desensitized the public as far as feeling that transit is so aggressive and no one is helpful," Ms. Ellis said.
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I've lived with this sensation in small doses most of my life—to the point where I've become accustomed, even desensitized to it—but lately, I have found myself asking: How can you possibly thrive in these conditions?
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Many of the young people growing up today are so familiar with death and pain that they are either completely desensitized to it or feel it caving in so rapidly that they feel like there is nothing to even live for.
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I talked with Hurst about this aspect in particular and we agreed that for VR it is very easy to pander to the audience with titillation or gore, since the experience is more immersive and we aren't as desensitized to it.
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Inside the West Wing, aides to Mr. Trump — numbed and desensitized by breathless news cycles blaring headlines about the president's behavior — said privately on Tuesday afternoon that they were having trouble assessing how devastating the day's legal events might be.
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"The gift about being in close proximity is that you're desensitized to seeing a different culture and judging it right away," said Lena Yee-Ross, a 20083-year-old high school senior whose mother is Chinese-American and father is black.
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"The clear lack of details on both the threat itself and the timing, over and above the evident desensitized state of the market in previous tests, underpins this lack of reaction," Jingyi Pan, market strategist at IG in Singapore, said.
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"I worry that any given live feed is getting supplanted by the next live feed and we may be getting desensitized to all of it," said Kaveri Subrahmanyam, associate director of California State University's Children's Digital Media Center, which focuses on media psychology.
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In immigrating to the U.S. from Iraq, the 22-year-old industrial designer left behind a war-filled country where, as a child, she became desensitized to some very scary things...including the possibility of her father leaving the house and never returning.
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"I fear that we will continue to become desensitized to the level of violence in media and in video games and the news, and that we will accept mass violence as a way of life, as they do in other countries," Ghaed says.
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Of course, that much exposure to one another naked often led to some shenanigans later on, but by that point, we were both sufficiently desensitized to any worries or discomforts about our bodies that we were able to purely focus on one another.
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During its run, I relived that scene in the doctor's office on previews, recaps, and commercials, and the more often I heard that line, "97% of women your age have more eggs in their ovaries than you," the more desensitized I became.
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"I have been very, I guess, desensitized to things like this, and I am not trying to be insolent at all, but at the time, it just didn't seem like that extraordinary, you know, such a terrible thing to do," he said.
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Orenstein sees a lot that she can't unsee, and we can't unhear her warnings: Porn is so pervasive, so ingrained in pop culture, so extreme in its fetishes and so dehumanizing of women that many young men are desensitized to live, consensual sex.
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Both Game of Thrones and The Walking Dead have struggled with a desensitized viewership as their ensembles have been whittled down to a core group of characters who essentially need to survive for a while longer, as the series head toward their respective end games.
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Between public announcements of loved ones dying, people breaking up with each other and other extremely personal experiences being treated as more of a reality show, we become desensitized to people having the right not to technologically share our entire lives and extremely private moments.
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As a new U.S. administration takes shape, it will inherit both a public that has been partly desensitized to the vital U.S. role in maintaining global order in the post-World War II era and parts of the world that are seemingly in perpetual chaos.
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We talked about this a bit after the Canada episode last season, but Luke's the only character on the show who isn't completely desensitized to the crimes of Gilead at this point, because he's the only one who doesn't have to live with them.
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With appearances by a handful of activists, including Tamika Mallory, one of the organizers of the Women's March on Washington, Democrats contemplated how they could prevent people from becoming desensitized or disheartened by a near-constant flow of contentious moves by the White House.
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But the reality is that before EA became the juggernaut of sports games, Konami's Blades of Steel included fighting, so it was an easy to way to sneak a video game with hand-to-hand combat past your parents, before we all became desensitized to violence.
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He recalls, for example, public awareness campaigns in the 1970s aimed at stemming auto fatalities in the U.S. "Despite quantum progress since then, 30,000 people a year still die on the road, and we are desensitized to this—unless it strikes close to home," he said.
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A waterproof Bluetooth speaker with wacky lightsPrice $250LikeSolid sound quality and durabilityNo LikeWacky lightsIn two weeks of testing, I can report that the XB41 does indeed light up as advertised, and it does play EDM music with a bass-heavy tuning that will please a desensitized teen.
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Obviously the people are indoctrinated, but the automatic conclusion that they have all been completely desensitized to become unthinking cogs in the state apparatus is an exceedingly simplistic analysis and typical of the kind of assumption one makes without having been there — I had made it too.
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If Trump is no longer able to command the media's and voters' attention with his social channels because the nation has become desensitized to his provocative posts, perhaps he will not be able to command the same media attention as he did during his last campaign.
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Still, he says he finds it hard to believe the dehumanization portrayed in the music contributed to an environment in which Betts felt desensitized enough to commit actual violence himself, including shooting to death his own sister and her boyfriend, two of the victims of his rampage.
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Instagram has desensitized us—okay there is no "us," here, I know, but I'm definitely implicating you guilty fux, too—to wealth, taste and beauty to such an extent that I can only get it up for someone's actual bank statement, or equivalent life evidence. Right?
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"I think we've become somewhat desensitized to the fact that these things happened, and it takes a thing like Sandy Hook to bring us back to our senses," said William Modzeleski, a consultant who formerly led the Department of Education's Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools.
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While I've grown desensitized to the red-and-black color scheme on HP's Omen line and other gaming machines, the X 2003S makes the best of its stealthy black-on-black exterior, with subtle changes in texture on the notebook's lid and deck adding some extra excitement.
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The Trump White House's contempt for the press—and for the more general notion that there are inconvenient truths in the world that can't be denied out of existence—is so well established by now that many of us who cover politics have become desensitized to its constant manifestations.
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Sure, extreme metal purists will gripe that the riffs and subject matter of 2015's Repentless weren't nearly as hostile as those of 1985's Hell Awaits, but many of these naysayers have been desensitized by the anatomical gush of death metal and the humorless blasphemy of black metal.
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"In the same way that a fish may not be aware that it's swimming in the water, because swimming in water is so much its natural state, I think we have become a little bit desensitized to the extent to which we are now swimming in corruption," he said.
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The amount of time it took for Twitter to decide that enough is enough paints a clear picture of where we are as culture -- when we've become so desensitized to such overtly charged hate that our first instinct is just to shake our heads and look the other way.
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This plot also doubles as a clever send-up of the way that television and movie audiences seem to be totally desensitized to onscreen violence—or even, sometimes, cellphone videos of real violence—but will completely lose it when a fictional animal dies (see: Old Yeller and My Dog Skip).
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Roanoke is an ungainly season of television, but in its dissection of the ways that we keep filming everything, even when our lives are in danger, and the ways that tendency often leads to a world where we become desensitized to horrible behavior, it gets at something profound, if unintentionally.
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What's really fucked is the fact that the #metoo movement has been amazing at bringing light to the issue of sexual assault in the workplace and other, but since basically, EVERY fucking person in politics/position of authority has committed an act of sexual assault, the masses are almost desensitized to the issue.
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" In our nation, power is shared, he says, checked and balanced precisely to thwart would-be autocrats: "But as we become desensitized to the notion that Mr. Trump is the ultimate authority, we may attribute less importance to the laws, norms and principles that uphold our system of government, which protects our rights.
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He desensitized Nelson with feints, and when he committed his weight to the right hand he would duck out or change the angle, sometimes resulting in this gorgeous quarter turn that looks more like something from the arsenal of Willie Pep than some a 250 pound mixed martial arts fighter would do.
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While we've become so desensitized to sex that you half expect Antiques Roadshow to feature a bukkake scene or two, there's something so genuinely real about the video, something so almost tactile about it, so genuinely filled with priapic longing and lycra-encased lust that watching it now, feels like an act of genuine transgression.
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"We just don't want to become desensitized for them to think that this is a normal thing, cause it really is every single day these tragedies happen, but we are going to keep up with this and we're not going to forget," March for Our Lives organizer Jasmine Nguyen, 16, told CNN affiliate WJLA.
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"There is a risk that those using these child sex dolls or realistic props could become desensitized and their behavior becomes normalized to them, so that they go on to harm children themselves, as is often the case with those who view indecent images," said Jon Brown of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.
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After more than a year of candidate Trump, Americans are almost desensitized to each new failing exhumed from his past—the losing schemes and cheapskate cruelties, the discrimination and misogyny—much as they are to the daily indecencies of the present: the malice toward a grieving mother, the hidden tax records, the birther fiction and other lies.
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I don't know how to address that, but I think it has to do with the fact that we've been so accustomed to seeing smaller sizes for so long that we're desensitized to the imagery, whereas the other end of the spectrum is relatively new so it is easy to create reasons why people don't want to see more of that.
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