You’re sort of missing the point of the statement. Which would itself indicate it’s not a contradiction at all.
“Othering” people is making a blanket group an enemy. Humans do love to categorize things, and so the process of Othering based on arbitrary or immutable characteristics fits our known human biases well. It’s an easy way to manipulate humans.
“These people” refers not to an arbitrary categorization of people, but rather a specific group of individuals in power right now that are doing real harm to people.
If anything, you could call it a limitation of English as a language, or my poor choice of words, but the statement on its own clearly indicates that there’s no contradiction.
The internal contradiction is strong here.
You’re sort of missing the point of the statement. Which would itself indicate it’s not a contradiction at all.
“Othering” people is making a blanket group an enemy. Humans do love to categorize things, and so the process of Othering based on arbitrary or immutable characteristics fits our known human biases well. It’s an easy way to manipulate humans.
“These people” refers not to an arbitrary categorization of people, but rather a specific group of individuals in power right now that are doing real harm to people.
If anything, you could call it a limitation of English as a language, or my poor choice of words, but the statement on its own clearly indicates that there’s no contradiction.