Disgust blocks sympathy and functions as a device of subordination

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 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Unassimilated particularity that resists conceptual order arouses visceral disgust — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 137; Politeness and social mixing mask a tacit acceptance of inhumanity — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1690; 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is a structural effect of genre and class ideology — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 703 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Disgust as social evaluation displaces sympathy and solidarity as responses to injustice #corroborates (0.95) — Cristian Tileagă, The Nature of Prejudice, 746