Saturday, 23 October 2021

Semelin

'The community of 'us' will be constructed at the expense of rejection of some 'Other', perceived as a profoundly different 'Them'...A classic social phenomenon, one group's identity is asserted in opposition to the stigmatised otherness of another group'.

Jaques Semelin  in: Purify and Destroy: The Political uses of Massacre and Genocide 

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