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The assassination of Charlie Kirk on a Utah college campus Wednesday has ignited warnings from Dr. Drew Pinsky, who described it as a symptom of a dangerous societal shift.

"Whenever mass murder has occurred, it's always been in a setting of dehumanization, always," Pinsky said on " Hannity " just hours after the Turning Point USA founder was shot and killed.

He explained that mobs often begin by scapegoating and stripping rivals of their humanity, which they believe ultimately gives them permission for violence.

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"One of the things that mobs do is they scapegoat, they first dehumanize," said Pinsky, chief patient officer at The Wellness Company.

"And once they’re scapegoating, they go

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