Refusing to recognize others’ death erodes one’s own humanity

Evidence

In a terse twist, by the same token, death’s distillation, its concentration, the recognition of death’s enormity in these cases conjures racial evaporation. In the case of slavery racial evaporation transpires in the delinking of past from present and future, The concentrated killing of Auschwitz evaporates race in the insistence of the Shoah’s uniqueness, its exemplary exceptionality. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 848 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Only death is an image of undistorted, not-hypostasized life — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia: Reflections from…, 88; Administrative mass death requires a humanity already dead to itself. — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia: Reflections from…, 255; Authentic existence requires accepting that we will die — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 292 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Acknowledging death’s enormity can itself erase the racial dimension #complicates (0.72) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 848