Poverty is an ongoing crisis and a form of deliberate withdrawal in some cases. Despite this, some people deny or distort the violence of poverty in various ways

  • Denying the existence of poverty or insisting that it does not exist
  • Blaming the poor or moralizing survival strategies they must use to survive
  • Downplaying the violations or violent, dehumanizing impacts that poverty has on the citizens.
  • Inflicts unnecessary suffering and stigma on those with experiences on poverty.

Poverty denialism is a breach of the social contract and enables dehumanization as well as current ongoing atrocities. What can Technocrats do about this as well as the denials of other historical atrocities that contribute to human rights challenges and pose a threat to civil society and governance?