Othering reduces individuals to abstract cliches that justify their subjugation

Evidence

The black, the Jew, and the woman, she concluded, were objectified as the Other in ways that were both overtly despotic and insidious, but with the same result: their particularity as human beings was reduced to a lazy, abstract cliché (“the eternal feminine”; “the black soul”; “the Jewish character”) that served as a rationale for their subjugation. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 18

Categorization

• DEFINE: Core definition of the ‘Other’ mechanism — the reduction of particular human beings to lazy abstract cliché that functions as a rationale for subjugation.
• XREF: Connects to Hegel’s master-slave dialectic and the Continental tradition of dialectical otherness that Beauvoir inherits and transforms. — connects to: Controlled collective clichés are poorer than living reality; Denying others’ subjectivity reduces the denier to a thing — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 618; The Other-as-object resists reduction to his underlying subjectivity (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Denying others’ subjectivity reduces the denier to a thing #qualifies (0.82) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 618
• The Other-as-object resists reduction to his underlying subjectivity #contradicts (0.80)
• The consensuality of stereotypes contradicts their origin in individual justification #contradicts (0.75) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 2888