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otherisation

Used by the neuroscientist Kathleen Taylor to describe what happens when people are not included in their tribe; the others are commonly classed as beasts or subhumans.

Can be broadened towards separating people belonging to different religions or separating believers/non-believers, friends/not-friends
Those who carried out the final solution in Nazi Germany could only have done it by otherisation of the Jews.
by aaarwin October 28, 2012
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otherization

The implementation of an ‘us and them’ dichotomy that allows one group of humans to dehumanize another.
Every single member of this classist and ethnocentric Trump administration has mastered their own otherization narrative which when taken together clearly parallels Hitler’s Final Solution.
by Dr Bunnygirl July 21, 2019
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