Racial separation serves to numb the perpetrators’ awareness of injustice

Evidence

Apartheid is the state and the condition of being apart. It is the no man’s land between peoples. But this gap is not a neutral space. It is the artificially created distance necessary to attenuate, for the practitioners, the very raw reality of racial, economic, social and cultural discrimination and exploitation. Apartheid is the White man’s night, the darkness which blurs his consciousness and his conscience. What one does not see doesn’t exist. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 545

Categorization

• APHORISMS: ‘What one does not see doesn’t exist’ — a grim, generalizable observation about how engineered distance enables complicity; the whole passage condenses a moral-psychology insight into a memorable form.
• XREF: Connects to the reader’s broader curation on noise/silence and how deliberate separation erases perception; also resonates with ideas about moral disengagement through distance in Milgram/Bandura’s work.