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The ease with which humanity has, does, and could: other, essentialize, and deindividualize anything or anyone is disturbing when examined. When unexamined, however, it is even more disturbing, since it is when it is unexamined that it has freest reign. When we do not question why we hate a group of people, or why someone is our enemy; when we don’t question why we do what we do, or what we call things; when we don’t ask where the meat on our plate came from, or why we even eat meat; when we believe we are separate, better, and unique without a single doubt – that is when we are our most dangerous to each other and to all life on this planet.

 

 

Works Cited

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Columbia University Press, 2012. Print.

Kroetz, Flávia Saldanha. “Post-Genocide Identity Politics in Rwanda and Bosnia and

Herzegovina and Their Compatibility with International Human Rights Law.” International Journal on Minority and Group Rights, vol. 23, no. 3, 2016, pp. 328–354. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/44631157. Accessed 13 Nov. 2020.

Johnson, Walter. The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United

States. New York: Basic Books, 2020. Web. https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/largest-human-zoo-world-history

Moore, Robert I. The Formation of a Persecuting Society: Authority and Deviance in Western

Europe 950-1250. Kindle Edition.

Tope, Daniel, et al. “Othering Obama: Racial Attitudes and Dubious Beliefs about the Nation's

First Black President.” Sociological Perspectives, vol. 57, no. 4, 2014, pp. 450–469. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/44290108. Accessed 14 Nov. 2020.

Bazterrica, Agustina M., and Sarah Moses. Tender is the Flesh: a novel. New York, NY: Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc, 2020. Print.

 

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A basic prerequisite of any human being doing harm to another living being of any sort is the process of othering, essentializing, and deindividualizing.  This chain of mental maneuvers creates the perception of distance necessary to oppress, harm, or kill another being. The same techniques have been used against other humans and animals throughout history, and still are today.  In Tender is the Flesh a zoonotic disease has supposedly rendered all animals inedible and dangerous to humans. Not being willing to give up eating meat, the population turns to human flesh. The story is told through the eyes of Marcos Tejo, who seems leery of the new reality, but goes through some disturbing moral shifts when he is gifted a “female head” of his own.     The focus here is to explore how othering, essentializing, and deindividualizing have manifested in our history, in our present, and what lessons we can take from the fictional future of Tender is the Flesh .
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