Neither denunciation nor privatized acceptance can create a politics of mutual respect

Evidence

It must therefore be emphasized that the common submission to a ruling power by no means always leads to unification but, if the submission occurs under certain conditions, to the very opposite of it. For instance, English legislation directed a number of measures and exclusions concerning military service, the right to vote, ownership, and government positions, against non-Conformists, that is, against Presbyterians, Catholics, and Jews alike. The member of the state church thus used his prerogative to give equal expression to his hatred of all these groups. But this did not fuse the oppressed into a community of any sort; on the contrary, the hatred of the Conformist was even surpassed by the Presbyterian’s hatred of the Catholic, and of the Catholic’s of the Presbyterian. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 335 (#complicates, via linked claim)

The very character of a society is uniquely determined by its moral commitments, and by these commitments it is defined. … The modalities of American constitutional argument do not depend upon a moral justification to legitimate limited government. A society need not lose its cultural character, therefore, when it places its government under law. — Philip Chase Bobbitt, Reflections Inspired by My Critics, 92 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Neither denunciation nor privatized tolerance can build interfaith political respect.; Respectability politics offers no protection against police violence — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 428; Neither denunciation nor privatized tolerance can create genuine Muslim-non-Muslim respect (+4 more)

Related

• Neither denunciation nor privatized tolerance can build interfaith political respect. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Common oppression does not necessarily unify the oppressed #complicates (0.78) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 335
• Limited government need not erase a society’s distinctive moral character #expands (0.50) — Philip Chase Bobbitt, Reflections Inspired by My Critics, 92