European democracies simultaneously empower and dominate through the same mechanisms
Evidence
European liberal democracies are mechanisms of domination as well as empowerment (Fassin, 2005 ). In Europe the question of ‘why can’t we just get along’ is intimately linked to the matter of the moral status that should be assigned to others who are alike, but also, fundamentally, unlike ‘us’. This matter, in turn, cannot be addressed without refl ecting on the tension between two Europes: a cosmopolitan Europe that struggles against ethnocentric temptations (Beck, 2006 ) and a conservative Europe, attempting to protect what it sees as its ‘patrimony’, but careful to champion a rhetoric of human values and sympathy (Finkielkraut, 2013 ). — Cristian Tileagă, The Nature of Prejudice, 719
In this climate, toughness and conservatism coexist with reasonableness and humanitarianism. European liberal democracies are mechanisms of domination as well as empowerment (Fassin, 2005 ). — Cristian Tileagă, The Nature of Prejudice, 719
Categorization
- DEEPTHINKING: Core tension statement: liberal democracy as simultaneously domination and empowerment is a dense, paradigm-wobbling claim about the welfare/humanitarian state.
- corroborated: 4 independent passages support this claim — Cristian Tileagă, The Nature of Prejudice: Society,…, 719
- XREF: connects to: Acceleration functions as a strategy immunizing global power from democratic steering — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration: A New Theory of…, 597
Related
- Liberal democracies are simultaneously mechanisms of domination and empowerment (similarity 0.85)
- Europe is split between cosmopolitan and patrimony-protecting moral visions (similarity 0.79)
- Liberal democratic values are ambiguous and can legitimize domination (similarity 0.78)