Disgust blocks the solidarity that egalitarian societies otherwise owe the excluded
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: Directly continues the Chapter 7 argument on disgust as a political emotion, and connects to the ADDENDUM article about sacrifice/moral exclusion of out-groups. — connects to: Unassimilated particularity that resists conceptual order arouses visceral disgust — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 137