Any measure of a human being – in thought or in practice – that subtracts from the essence of a person’s human being is an act of subordination and domination. The thought and practice of this kind of inhumanity has a face-value and a purchase-value. Another way of understanding face-value and purchase-value in the context of intolerance is as a “unified structure of consciousness brought into being by the whole of society“. If the face-value of intolerance is produced socially (colonialism, slavery, Jim Crow etc.), the forms and expressions of its inhumanity lend varying degrees of social validity to the thought and practice of historically specific subordination and domination.
‘Soft Attacks’
When killings and beatings become news and go viral via social media, we call men monsters that we failed to call out as boogie men when their expressions of hate were less violent but none the less vile. In the solace of solidarity with victims of intolerance and hate, understand this; ‘soft’ is an erace word. (read in menu above “WORDS!“)