To: Greg or e who wrote (15030 ) 3/30/2011 7:25:53 PM From: one_less 1 Recommendation Read Replies (3) | Respond to I find most of your posts to be rather ironic, like calling people cowards while promoting your religion. Or like anticipatory fantasies of being able to accuse me of 'othering.' tsk"Othering is a way of defining and securing one’s own positive identity through the stigmatization of an "other." Whatever the markers of social differentiation that shape the meaning of "us" and "them," whether they are racial, geographic, ethnic, economic or ideological, there is always the danger that they will become the basis for a self-affirmation that depends upon the denigration of the other group. When a group claims to be "chosen by God," the danger multiplies, not only for the "unchosen" other who may be subjected to violence, but for the chosen group itself that is at risk of being undermined. [In other words, convenient though othering is as a way of propping up one’s ego, it has an inherent fragility because it must constantly be fed by the illusory inferiority by the Other – and is thus constantly at risk of being discredited – MU]" cwrl.utexas.edu
