Disgust as social evaluation displaces sympathy and solidarity as responses to injustice

Evidence

Disgust, as social evaluation, replaces sympathy and solidarity as responses to injustice in decent societies. Disgust, as ‘a key device of subordination’ (ibid., p. 182), goes hand in hand with the taboo of contact, and blocks the expression of genuine solidarity and sympathy. — Cristian Tileagă, The Nature of Prejudice, 746

Categorization

• XREF: Chains to the sacrifice/sacral kingship readings on group boundaries and to Nussbaum’s argument about disgust blocking political respect. — connects to: Unassimilated particularity that resists conceptual order arouses visceral disgust — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 137; Audience sympathy for a character is a structural effect of genre and class ideology — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 703

Related

• Disgust blocks the solidarity that egalitarian societies otherwise owe the excluded (similarity 0.91)
• Disgust is a collective practice requiring imagined community agreement (similarity 0.81)
• Unassimilated particularity that resists conceptual order arouses visceral disgust (similarity 0.79)