Perceived heterogeneity of historical factors is an assumption, not a finding
Evidence
Entangled in the net of marginalizing narratives we all help to weave, we fail to see what we stare at; the only thing we are able to note is the confusing heterogeneity of the picture, coexistence of things our language does not allow to coexist, the complicity of factors that, as our narratives tell us, belong to different epochs or different times. Their heterogeneity is not a finding, but an assumption. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 607
Categorization
- XREF: Parallels to how Islamophobia discourse portioned into ‘ancient religious hatred’ vs modern political contexts similarly presumes heterogeneity. — connects to: Historical conjunctures are overdetermined accumulations of heterogeneous contradictions