Quotes About Othering

But the problem is that the fundamental structure of scapegoating is not broken in the acceptance of the latest "other." If the underlying scapegoat mechanism is not decommissioned, then new "others" will always arise to protect the group from its own internal conflicts. For

Hollywood screwed up in the past. They made Asians the other - a separate group that could only hang out with each other.

Every one of these ideas though must be considered in the cultural context and time in which it was authored. All are by European men being exposed to the peoples of the world as a result of expanded trade routes, colonialization, and empire building, and in many cases the conquering and enslavement of the people they encountered. The invention of race occurs in an era of exploration, exploitation, and plunder, an era when the othering of people from colonies extended to actual human zoos.

Violence against the other, and the way we otherize people out of fear, has to be examined across the board.

Zira, lezbiyen-gösterenine baÅŸvurularak neyin kastedildiÄŸi her zaman için kesin bir belirsizlik içinde kalm??t?r; zaten onun anlamland?r?lmas? her zaman için bir derece kontrol d???d?r, ayr?ca özgüllüÄŸü de ancak, kendi bütünsellik iddias?n? çürütmeye yarayan d??lamalarla ay?rt edilebilen bir olgudur.

For dehumanization to occur the target group must first be essentialized. They, the others, must be seen as a distinct kind of person: not just superficially different, but radically so. This pattern is borne out by all of the cases of dehumanization that have been surveyed so far in this book.

European authors often write books about the rest of the world that profess a vision of shared humanity but fall far short, casting the other as exotic or dangerous.

pseudospeciation, the reduction of alien societies to the status of inferior species, not fully human, who can be degraded without conscience. Even

Orientalism… a Western style for dominating, restructuring, and having authority over the Orient.

After President Obama's election, efforts at othering Obama quickly became about smearing his non-partisan allies and ambassadors.

You can't do that shit to your own kind. They have to be turned into the other first. Dehumanized.

I could see how the Ambossans had hardened their hearts to our humanity. They convinced themselves that we do not feel as they do, so that they do not have to feel anything for us. It's very convenient and lucrative for them.

In 2015, nearly one hundred Canadian, Dutch, Irish, German, and English citizens came to America to adopt black children. Whatever forms of othering may be going on in their countries, they are not infected with American anti-black bias that coursed from Virginia's legal codes in the seventeenth century through the supremacist regimes of later ages to the subconscious of far too many Americans in the twenty-first.

I think a lot about our globalized world, our global interconnectedness, and it really saddens me when I see people 'othering,' when I see people who are willing to live narrowly.

What is the nature of Othering's comfort, its allure, its power (social, psychological, or economical)? Is it the thrill of belonging - which implies being part of something bigger than one's solo self, and therefore stronger? My initial view leans toward the social/psychological need for a stranger, an Other in order to define the estranged self (the crowd seeker is always the lonely one).

Artistic othering has to do with innovation, invention, and change, upon which cultural health and diversity depend and thrive. Social othering has to do with power, exclusion, and privilege, the centralizing of a noun against which otherness is measured, meted out, marginalized. My focus is the practice of the former by people subjected to the latter.

Dao was not everyman, because not every man would have been brutalized in that way. In the same way I saw Dao and thought, He is not any man, he is my father, Chicago aviation officers thought, He is not any man, he is a thing. They sized him up as passive, unmasculine, untrustworthy, suspicious, and foreign. Years of accumulated stereotypes unconsciously flickered through their minds

Othering whoever has othered us, in reverse, is no liberation — as cathartic as it may feel. Liberation is liberation: the recognition of somebody in everybody.

It serves a demagogue well to set up a scapegoat or a public enemy to unite the populace behind him and by so doing, enable them to overlook incursions on human rights through fear and ignorance. It serves him well to designate a group as other and, for that reason, treat them as inferior, subhuman, and ineligible for the protection of the laws of civilized society.

Disgust is a very powerful tool for bringing about crowd violence. If a group can be dehumanized and made into the Other, the 'them,' to treat that group horribly is made much easier.

Every era in the continent's vaunted developmental story had its own taxonomy of waste people-unwanted and unsalvageable. Each era had its own means of distancing its version of white trash from the mainstream ideal.